Kim Liên museum

Kim Liên Museum is a historical museum in Kim Lien village, Nghệ An province, central Vietnam, dedicated to displaying items and photographs from Ho Chi Minh's early years. The exhibition covers several rooms that show personal belongings, documents, and everyday objects from rural life in the early 20th century.

The museum was established in Kim Lien, the home village where Ho Chi Minh lived from 1901 to 1906 before leaving and later playing a central role in Vietnam's struggle for independence. The site preserves memories of these formative years and makes them accessible to visitors.

Inside the exhibition rooms, visitors see tools used for working in rice paddies, clay cooking pots, and wooden school slates that show how villages functioned in the early 1900s. These items reveal how simple and hardworking daily life was in rural central Vietnam at that time.

The museum can be reached by regional buses from Vinh city that run regularly to Kim Lien and stop nearby. Guided tours are offered in Vietnamese and English, and it helps to visit in the morning when fewer school groups are around.

On the museum grounds stands the original house with a thatched roof where the family lived, still looking as it did in the early 1900s. Visitors can step inside and see how small and simple the living conditions were at that time.

GPS coordinates: 18.67402,105.55443

Latest update: December 5, 2025 22:30