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Chengdu Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum

Chengdu Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum

Location: No 6 Xinchuang Road in Wuhou district

Ticket: 20 yuan ($3.15)

Operated by Chengdu University of TCM, Chengdu TCM Museum is the first museum in China to specialize in traditional Chinese medicine.

The museum consists of four indoor exhibition halls and two herb gardens and exhibits more than 4,000 collections including ancient books, specimens and TCM utensils. Depiction of ancient herbal medicine shops and small clinics on special displays also offer visitors vivid insights into the development history of TCM in China over the past 2,000 years.

Special displays at the Chengdu TCM Museum demonstrate how people cook herbal medicines in ancient time. [Photo/Xinhua]

Antique wooden signs used to identify medicine shops are now on display in Chengdu TCM Museum. [Photo/Xinhua]

Visitors view the ancient TCM utensils. [Photo/Xinhua]

Edited by Mevlut Katik