Nha Rong Wharf - Ho Chi Minh Museum

Nha Rong Wharf is located at 1 Nguyen Tat Thanh Street, Ward 12, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City. This used to be a major commercial port of Saigon during the French colonial period, and is also home to the harbor's headquarters building built in 1864 to house the General Director and departments. The project features two large green terracotta dragons mounted on the rooftop in the position of "two dragons admiring the moon". That is also the reason why the building is called Nha Rong (Dragon House) and the wharf is also called Nha Rong Wharf (Dragon House Wharf).

Nha Rong Wharf was formerly a major commercial port of Saigon. In October 1865, Thu Ngu flagpole was erected on Nha Rong wharf to guide ships through here. At the end of 1899, the first two wharfs were built along the 42m long riverbank. In 1930, the wharf was rebuilt with reinforced concrete, combining 2 wharfs into 1 430m long. After the French were defeated in Indochina in 1954, Ben Nha Rong came under the management of the South Vietnamese Government. The dragon-shaped architectural detail on the roof top is changed outward. This architectural style is a harmonious combination of traditional Eastern architecture and Western culture. The entire construction of Nha Rong Wharf today is almost intact.

Nha Rong Wharf has long been famous around the world not only for its unique architecture but also especially for its role as a witness of an extremely important historical event of the Vietnamese nation. On June 5, 1911, President Ho Chi Minh began his journey to find a way to save the country here. To remember the great merits of President Ho Chi Minh, after 1975, Nha Rong Wharf was requisitioned as President Ho Chi Minh's relic. In 1982, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City officially made a decision to transform the "Ho Chi Minh Relics Area" into "Ho Chi Minh Museum Ho Chi Minh City Branch". The museum has collected, preserved, displayed and propagated the life and career of President Ho Chi Minh, especially emphasizing the stages of the people who found the way to save the country. The museum is today one of the most impressive tourist attractions in Ho Chi Minh City, attracting a large number of domestic and international visitors.

The museum currently keeps more than 11,000 documents, artifacts and 3,300 books written about President Ho Chi Minh on display according to themes associated with his career. Besides seminars, talks, exhibitions, film screenings... related to President Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh Museum - Ho Chi Minh City is also a place to organize cultural activities - social activities in the city such as Party and Union admission ceremony, traditional activities, programs to respond to revolutionary action campaigns and voluntary movements of the city's youth. Combining tourism with traditional patriotic education, the museum deserves to be an indispensable tourist destination in the journey to discover Ho Chi Minh City tourism.

Over the past 30 years, the Ho Chi Minh Museum has truly become an educational center about the revolutionary history, moral thought and great revolutionary activities of President Ho Chi Minh. The museum has welcomed more than 30 million national and international tourists. In particular, hundreds of heads of state and senior officials from many countries visited and paid their respects to President Ho Chi Minh. On May 31, 2011, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City issued a decision to recognize the Ho Chi Minh Museum as a City-level Art and Architecture Monument.

Nha Rong Wharf or Ho Chi Minh Museum today has shown a great role as a place to store important artifacts of President Ho Chi Minh. Visitors arriving at the museum not only have the opportunity to admire the unique architecture of the museum, but also better understand the life and journey of saving the country of the greatest man of the Vietnamese nation. Nha Rong Wharf plays an important role in promoting Ho Chi Minh City tourism to domestic and international tourists.