Ho Chi Minh Museum
Lotus-shaped modernist hall of surreal Cold War propaganda art, revolutionary relics, and a car crashing through a wall.
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This guide to the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi opens with a 1958 Ford Edsel frozen mid-crash through a wall on an upper floor, a Cold War metaphor planted among photographs of a barefoot revolutionary leader. You'll hear how the lotus-shaped hall opened in 1990, a century after Ho Chi Minh's birth, and the strange mix of sacred relics and surreal propaganda art that fills its spiraling ramp. Look for Ho Chi Minh's own worn sandals displayed near captured American ordnance.
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