At the museum, Nguyen Van Thanh highlighted the significance of President Ho Chi Minh’s time in Thailand to Viet Nam’s patriotic and revolutionary movements.

President of the Viet Nam-Thailand Friendship Association Nguyen Van Thanh signs the guestbook at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Ban Dong, Phichit Province, Thailand.

According to records kept by the Ho Chi Minh Museum, revolutionary leader Nguyen Ai Quoc arrived in Ban Dong in early July 1928 and stayed there for a period of time. During his brief stay, he lived and worked alongside the Vietnamese expatriate community, visited local families and held talks on the situation in Viet Nam and the world. He encouraged community members to learn Vietnamese and Thai, foster solidarity and mutual support, build good relations with local residents, and respect local customs, traditions and laws.

The delegation from the Viet Nam-Thailand Friendship Association visits the museum.

The Ho Chi Minh Museum is located within the grounds of the Thailand-Viet Nam Friendship Centre in Phichit Province. It was inaugurated on September 1, 2018. The museum was built based on an initiative and investment by the Thai authorities and displays documents and photographs about President Ho Chi Minh’s life and revolutionary activities, the history of the Vietnamese community in Ban Dong, and Viet Nam-Thailand relations.

On this occasion, the delegation from the Viet Nam-Thailand Friendship Association presented the museum with a bronze drum, a distinctive cultural symbol of the Vietnamese people.

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