Hồ Chí Minh Museum

About this audio guide

This guide to the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hue centers on the years just before nineteen hundred, when Nguyen Sinh Sac brought his wife Hoang Thi Loan and their two young sons to the imperial capital so he could sit for exams. It follows her years spinning and weaving cloth to keep the family fed, and his uneasy climb through minor clerk postings, including a stretch in the Ministry of Rites. Listen for how an ordinary working household, not a palace, shaped a future national leader.