When he was alive, Uncle Ho did not have the chance to come to the Central Highlands. However, his affection towards people in the Central Highlands region has always been marked in the hearts of the people.

The Gia Lai-Kon Tum branch Ho Chi Minh Museum welcomes millions of domestic and foreign visitors each year. (Photo: nhandan.com.vn)

It is no coincidence that the Ho Chi Minh Museum was built in Gia Lai province’s Pleiku city. Realising the will of people in the Central Highlands in building a house to welcome the soul of Uncle Ho, the Gia Lai provincial Party Committee Standing Board issued a resolution in 1981 on building a house to exhibit images on President Ho Chi Minh’s revolutionary career so that people can visit. It has also become a place for educating the younger generation about his ideology and ethics.

Built between 1982 and 1984, the construction was inaugurated on the occasion of President Ho Chi Minh’s 94th birthday (May 19th). It stands as the only project to commemorate Uncle Ho in the Central Highlands region. Since its operation, the Museum has welcomed millions of people in the Central Highlands and across the country to visit and burn incense to commemorate Uncle Ho, apart from the visits by leaders of the Party and State.

Apart from thousands of documents and images about Uncle Ho’s revolutionary career, many exhibits, documents and images relating to Uncle Ho’s affection towards the people and the people’s hearts towards Uncle Ho, are on show, including a statue of Uncle Ho made manually in copper in Yit Phang village, Ia Lang commune, Duc Co district, and his will, made of wood.

It also includes one precious document that no other museum in the country has – the contents of the letter that Uncle Ho sent to the unity congress of southern ethnic minority groups in Pleiku city on April 19th, 1946, which was translated into the three ethic minority languages of Gia Rai, Ba Na and Xe Dang.

In his letter, he wrote that Kinh or Tho group, Muong or Man group, Gia Rai or E De group, Xe Dang or Ba Na group, or other ethnic minority groups, are Vietnamese children and brothers. “We are together despite living or dead, happy or vulnerable, prosperous or poor,” the letter said. “River water can be dry and mountains can collapse, but our solidarity is never to be reduced.”

On important events of the country and during Uncle Ho’s birthday, people in Central Highlands come to the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Gia Lai province to commemorate the great State leader and to read and follow his teachings./.

( Compiled by VNF )