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Accordingly, the museum was designed by graphic art specialist Dam Ca and was managed by the content group members of Associate Professor and Doctor Nguyen Van Huy, former Director of the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology. As reported, this work has been completed by upgrading the To Huu memorial house at D9 Building, Thang Long International Village in Hanoi.

With the style of an innovative and scientific exhibition, in combination with multi-media audiovisual equipment, the museum is expected to provide visitors international, domestic and individual data related to the talented poet in the nearly past century.

To Huu Museum will serve guests on Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Exhibits will introduce the life and career of poet To Huu through his publication of seven collections of poems in the period of the country's revolutionary history, and to simulate a part of house No. 76 Phan Dinh Phung Street, where the poet and his family had lived for more than 40 years until he passed away.

To Huu (Nguyen Kim Thanh) who was born in 1920 in Hue and passed away in 2002, was one of Vietnam’s great poets of the 20th century. He was called “a revolutionary poet”, “the people’s poet”, and “the founder of Vietnam’s revolutionary poetry”. To Huu received the Ho Chi Minh Prize in Literature and Arts in 1996.

“To Huu was a vanguard of revolutionary poetry in the early 20th century, Vietnam’s most critical revolutionary period. His poems closely reflected Vietnam’s political and historical events and represented people’s interests and aspirations in different historical periods. To Huu’s poems were a great example of combining politics and art,” said Associate Professor Dr. Le Quang Hung, Vice Head of the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies at the Hanoi National University of Education.

To Huu’s revolutionary activities were linked with his life as a poet. According to To Huu, a good poem must meet certain criteria, including ideological content as well as purely poetic and artistic content. His poems praise the Party, the revolution, and his homeland, yet they are never dry or impersonal.

During two resistance wars, against the French and the Americans, To Huu wrote a number of poems to encourage the spirit of revolutionary soldiers and people, including “Luom”, “Hooray Dien Bien soldiers”, “Vietnam blood and flowers”, and “From Cuba”.