Today we experienced the Ho Chi Minh Museum--and what an experience it
was. The architecture was expectedly monumental, stark, and
distictively Communist. Inside, we found a surprising exhibition about
Ho that was strangely experiential and very conceptual. This image,
for example, represents a depiction of Ho's cave that the didactic
explained was presented in the shape of a brain. Other exhibits were
not as sucessful. One walk-in installation explored the impact of
Fascism through terrible Picasso reproductions. Another exhibit was in
the shape of a walk-in lotus, with each petal shaped into a vitrine
with objects from Ho's life. Michael described the experience as,
"Star Trek-like."
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