Because of the love and admiration the Vietnamese people had for their great leader, after he passed away on September 2, 1969, the Vietnamese State ordered construction of the mausoleum to preserve the President's body.

  President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum welcomes thousands of visitors a day.

Commencing on September 2, 1973 and with the labours of people from all walks of life, construction of the granite structure continued non-stop for two years. On August 29, 1975 the President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum was opened.

The house-on-stilts and the fish pond in the memorial site.

To view the President’s body, visitors must climb a stairway lined with security guards dressed in starchy stiff, white military uniforms, to a room on the second floor of the building that contains the glass coffin. The leader’s body is adorned in white khaki trousers and shirt, and near his feet is a pair of rubber sandals, identical to the way the President dressed when he was alive.

The age-old One-Pillar Pagoda in the memorial site.

On exiting the rear of the mausoleum guests are directed along a pebble pathway that leads to a vast garden behind the Presidential Palace, undoubtedly the most peaceful place in Hanoi. Here there is an orchard, rows of coconut trees, eglantine rose bushes and the air is full of the soft, yet heady scent of jasmine. 

 
Visitors to the memorial site.

Trees in the orchard have been brought in from all parts of the country: the star apple tree from the south, the grapefruit tree from Phuc Trach, the orange tree from Xuan Mai, persimmon from Thach That in the north and other trees from the central region of the country.

Ho Chi Minh Museum where many valuable documents about the President are kept.

The centrepiece of the garden is the house-on-stilts where President Ho Chi Minh worked and relaxed. It has been maintained exactly as the President kept it: a single bed, a few eating utensils, an unadorned tea set on a small table. It’s an image that clearly reflects Ho Chi Minh’s simple life and pure virtues.

Visitors view artifacts and documents about President Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary life.

Ho Chi Minh at each end of the Square are rows of Plumeria trees and 18 cycad plants presented by the people in the delta provinces on the President's birthday. Read the Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on September 2, 1945.Hung Vuong Avenue, passing directly in front of the mausoleum, is shaded with Dipterocarpus retusus trees which were brought in from Phong Chau in Phu Tho Province. Adjacent to the avenue is the famous Ba Dinh Square, a vast carpet of green grass

 
Ho Chi Minh Museum always attracts a great number of visitors of different social strata.