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Kaysone Memorial Museum
6km from downtown Vientiane along Route 13 south ∙ Tues-Sun 8-noon & 1-4.30pm ∙ 5000K ∙ Getting to the
museum is easiest by rental motorbike or tuk-tuk. Southbound sawngthaews, departing from the main bus sta-
tion, pass by the museum
The
KaysoneMemorialMuseum
is the most visible attempt of the Lao government to build
a personality cult around the shadowy man who, according to Party legend, led the
Thirty
Year Struggle
.
It lies on the edge of Vientiane, in the former American compound known as
Six Klicks City
.
The Memorial Museum is strikingly modest compared to the mausoleum of Kaysone's Viet-
namese counterpart, Ho Chi Minh. Opened in 1994, the museum originally consisted only of
the tiny ranch house where Kaysone lived, though a more conventional museum was opened
