A museum with thousands of traditional medical artifacts
BINH DUONG – Traditional Medicine Museum of Vietnam has the same architecture as an old building, displaying about 3,000 artifacts of traditional medicine.
The museum is located in front of Highway 13, section passing Thuan An town (Binh Duong), about 15 km from the center of Ho Chi Minh City. The work has an area of more than 2,000 m2, built like a traditional Vietnamese house.
This is a private museum, operating since 2016, holding about 3,000 antiques, remedies, pictures, books … about oriental medicine.
A restoration room that reconstructs the model of a traditional oriental medicine pharmacy in the 19th century. The pharmacy is full of signs, medicine dispensers, pulse tables, drawers, preparation tools …
The museum consists of 14 rooms, most of which are built in the style of traditional ancient house architecture with tiled roofs, wooden columns, and baked brick floors … Each gallery has its own type of oriental medicine.
At the entrance is a room to introduce the history of Vietnamese Traditional Pharmacy. It displays antiques, books, paintings … related to the traditional medicine profession through the feudal dynasties.
Many metal kettles, pots, pots … for brewing drugs dating back hundreds of years, are stored in a glass case.
The pestle and stone mortar used to make medicine date back about 3,000 years, and is one of the oldest objects in the museum.
The dragon canopy boat used to make oriental medicine dates back to the 18th – 19th centuries. There are also many canopy boats with all kinds of shapes made of wood, stone, metal …
A large bronze pot with fine patterns was cast around the 19th century. Next to it are many traditional medicine-making tools such as pot, kettle, circuit breaker, canopy boat, grinding table, stone mortar. ..
Books about Oriental medicine in many languages, written in the 20th century, are collected by museum owners.
Another room in the museum introduces Vietnamese medicinal plants. There are hundreds of pictures with articles introducing in detail animals and minerals used as medicine.
600 hand-drawn paintings of Vietnamese medicinal plants are hung on the wall.
Next to it is a gallery of a model of a drugstore with a simple thatched-roofed cottage style often seen in the countryside. Many popular Vietnamese medicines such as mulch, mint, green tea, black beans, perilla … are dried and displayed in bamboo baskets.
A nostalgic museum space with wooden houses, tiled roofs, surrounded by lakes, gardens … It also sells herbal teas, tonic alcohol, traditional medicine.
The museum is open on weekdays except Sunday, from 8:30 to 17:00 with ticket price of 120,000 VND for adults and 60,000 VND for children under 1m2.
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