Zhejiang Chinese Medicine Museum

Zhejiang Chinese Medicine Museum

The Zhejiang Chinese Medicine Museum opened on October 30, 2009, and is located on the fourth and fifth floors of the west side of Building 23 at Zhejiang Chinese Medical University. The museum includes the University History Exhibition Hall, the Zhejiang Medical History Hall, and the Chinese Herbal Specimen Hall. It has now been relocated to the new museum.

The Zhejiang Chinese Medicine Museum (New Hall) was completed on October 14, 2019, and is situated southwest of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University.

The construction project of the Zhejiang Chinese Medicine Museum (New Hall) commenced in April 2018, received official approval from the Provincial Development and Reform Commission in December 2018, and officially broke ground on January 15, 2019. The new museum covers a total area of nearly 5,000 square meters, with an exhibition space of 3,200 square meters spread across three floors.

The first floor houses the University History Exhibition Hall, the second floor is the Medical History Hall, and the third floor is the Chinese Herbal Hall.

The entire museum has amassed countless treasures related to Chinese medicine. Some were donated by alumni, others were gifted by museums in other provinces, and some are specimens collected by faculty and students through mountain hikes and river explorations, culminating in its current scale.

The most distinctive part of the museum is the Chinese Herbal Specimen Hall, which includes a yellow crystal about the size of a pomelo donated by Academician Li Dapeng. This is an extremely rare stone—normally, the two types of medicinal materials are separate, but this one is hermaphroditic and is estimated to be of considerable value. In the animal specimen exhibition area, there is a flying squirrel whose feces are the famous traditional Chinese medicine known as Wu Ling Zhi.

The museum houses a total of 1,800 kinds of precious medicinal materials, including more than 60 rare ones. In addition to herbs, the museum also collects ancient folk prescriptions, showcases the production process of Chinese medicine, and presents the development history of Chinese medicine in Zhejiang.

The Zhejiang Chinese Medicine Museum is open to the public free of charge and serves as an educational base for traditional Chinese medicine.

Further reading:

· National Second-Class Museum of China