About FITO Museum
FITO Museum, also known as the Museum of Traditional Vietnamese Medicine, is a private museum in District 10, Ho Chi Minh City. Located at 41 Hoang Du Khuong Street, it is Vietnam's first museum dedicated to traditional medicine. Housed in a traditional Vietnamese wooden building, it displays nearly 3,000 artifacts related to herbal medicine, pharmacy tools, and medical manuscripts, illustrating the history and development of Vietnamese traditional medicine from ancient times to the present.
Visitors guide
Visitors can explore a six-storey building designed in traditional Vietnamese architecture with wooden interiors, red-tiled roofs and carved details. Inside are 18 exhibition rooms displaying herbal specimens, traditional pharmacy tools, mortars and pestles, medicine scales, ancient books and manuscripts, and a recreation of a traditional pharmacy. Audio guides are provided to explain the collection, and visitors can view demonstrations of traditional medicine preparation and browse a gift shop with herbal products.
Key highlights
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Vietnam's first museum dedicated to traditional Vietnamese medicine with nearly 3,000 artifacts
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Traditional Vietnamese wooden architecture with intricate carvings across six floors and 18 exhibition rooms
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Collection of ancient mortars, pestles, medicine choppers, scales and herbal preparation tools
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Display of ancient medical books, manuscripts and documents on traditional pharmacy
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Recreated traditional medicine pharmacy and herbal dispensary
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Audio guide included with admission explaining history of Vietnamese traditional medicine
History of FITO Museum
Opened in 2003 by FITO Pharma, it is the first private museum of traditional medicine in Vietnam. The collection documents the history of Vietnamese traditional medicine over thousands of years, from the Stone Age to the present, preserving tools, manuscripts and herbal knowledge developed through various historical periods.
Culture & Context
Preserves and presents the heritage of Vietnamese traditional medicine, including herbal medicine, acupuncture and folk remedies. The museum highlights the cultural role of traditional healers and pharmacists and the use of indigenous herbs and techniques passed down through generations in Vietnamese society.