Museum of the History of Chinese Medicine

　　The Museum of the History of Chinese Medicine was established and opened to the public in 1982. It is located within the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Nanzhao Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing. The museum currently houses over 3,000 precious collections and is hailed as the most extensive and time-spanning medical history museum in the world. Among its collections are ancient medical instruments such as stone needles, stone axes, and stone sickles, as well as imperial medical manuscripts, rubbings, rare medical books, and traditional Chinese medicine surgical tools made of ceramics, bronze, and jade. A significant number of the collections are also ancient portraits of renowned physicians with inscribed names and handwritten manuscripts by famous doctors, all of which hold great academic research value. The museum systematically and comprehensively showcases the origin, formation, development, and remarkable achievements of Chinese medicine.

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　　Over the past 20 years since its establishment, the museum has received hundreds of thousands of visitors, including renowned figures such as Dr. Joseph Needham, a famous British historian of science and technology, Professor Naoichi Sawai, a distinguished Japanese scholar of Chinese medicine and medical history, and Professor Nathan Sivin, a well-known American historian of science. On September 26, 2002, during the inauguration ceremony of the new building of the Museum of the History of Chinese Medicine and the 20th anniversary celebration of the Institute of Medical History and Literature at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, the museum received a donation from Ding Dahai, the descendant of Ding Fubao, a prominent Chinese medical scientist from the late Qing Dynasty. Ding Fubao was the first person to introduce X-ray equipment to China. Ding Dahai donated 87 cultural relics to the Museum of the History of Chinese Medicine, including ancient Chinese medical texts, manuscripts, calligraphy, and paintings that his ancestor had rescued and brought back from Japan.

　　Source: Beijing Municipal Commission of Tourism Development