At the end of 1953, in Viet Bac, President Ho Chi Minh and leaders of the Party decided to open Dien Bien Phu campaign.

President Ho Chi Minh visited a farmer’s family

President Ho Chi Minh visited farmers in the northern mountainous province of Bac Can who were harvesting rice in 1950

President Ho Chi Minh in a National Assembly meeting which approved land reform law in 1953

President Ho Chi Minh in his working room at the Viet Bac base

President Ho Chi Minh visited an arsenal at the Viet Bac base during the struggle against French colonialist

President Ho Chi Minh with delegates to a national congress in May 1st 1952

President Ho Chi Minh read a political report at the second national congress of the Vietnam Labour Party in Viet Bac in February 1951.

President Ho Chi Minh read a political report at the second national congress of the Vietnam Labour Party in Viet Bac in February 1951.

President Ho Chi Minh visited a military unit in a border campaign.

President Ho Chi Minh kept a close watch on the Dong Khe front in Cao Bang province

President Ho Chi Minh, the founder and leader of Vietnamese military, kept a close watch on the front during the border campaign. His ‘bunk’ moved according to battles. Sometimes, it was no more than a temporary grass hut.

President Ho Chi Minh had a meeting with the Standing Committee of the Party Central Committee and decided to launch the border campaign 1950.

In spite of being busy, beloved Uncle Ho always had time for children and adolescents in the jungle of Viet Bac.

The simple stilt house was the living and working place of President Ho Chi Minh in the struggle against the French colonialist.

President Ho Chi Minh worked from a cave in Viet Bac in 1951

After signing a provisional agreement with the French government on September 14th, 1946, President Ho Chi Minh said that the whole Vietnamese nation determined never to be slaves again.

President Ho Chi Minh in his office at the Presidential Palace in 1946

The first meeting of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam after the first general election nationwide on June 1st, 1946

President Ho Chi Minh and the Standing Committee of the Party Central Committee met in this house in Van Phuc village and decided to oust the French colonialist.