Siriraj Medical Museum
Siriraj Medical Museum
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Davy S
Antwerp, Belgium315 contributions
July 2024 • Family
Thanks to a tip from a friend, ended up here. It is really not an experience for those who are rather sensitive because you see a lot of deformed baby bodies. Impressive yes and instructive. It is also a bit of searching. This museum is spread over 2 buildings and then there is a second museum that is located near the pier of the Chao Express boats. Also best check the opening hours.
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Written 26 July 2024
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Floater7
Boise, ID15 contributions
Apr 2022 • Solo
Pretty interesting, but also very graphic, so be prepared.
Put on your CSI cap.
Several weeks after I viewed it, my wife told me a story.
Apparently her mother was pregnant and riding a motorscooter near by, and got in an accident. Lost the baby, and it ended up in that museum.
Glad she told me afterwards.
Put on your CSI cap.
Several weeks after I viewed it, my wife told me a story.
Apparently her mother was pregnant and riding a motorscooter near by, and got in an accident. Lost the baby, and it ended up in that museum.
Glad she told me afterwards.
Written 9 March 2023
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Patrick B.
Romanshorn, Switzerland22 contributions
Nov 2023 • Couples
The museum was really a different holiday experience. Three different themed rooms showed the history of Thai medicine. Unfortunately, very little was explained in English.
Some of the exhibits are really very graphic and not for the faint-hearted. But for those interested in medicine, it is definitely worth a visit. The exhibition is unique!
Some of the exhibits are really very graphic and not for the faint-hearted. But for those interested in medicine, it is definitely worth a visit. The exhibition is unique!
Written 30 November 2023
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ianthailand999
Chiang Mai, Thailand39 contributions
Jan 2024 • Family
Interesting exhibits which you won’t see easily outside of Thailand. Second time for me. The area is good too if you go by boat. So typical old Bangkok. You won’t find yourself in a place like this in the tourist places. Not easy to find, so use Google maps.
Written 14 January 2024
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DavidWGrant
Dallas, TX134 contributions
Mar 2012 • Business
If you liked Philadelphia's amazing Mutter Museum, you will love its inspiration, Thailand's "Death Museum". Taxi drivers will know it better as the death museum, and this is important because Sirriraj is huge! You'll need to get to the right part of the complex. I wish I'd had this place at my medical school! It is grimy, dark, uninviting physically, and absolutely mind-blowing medically. The best preservation of the human nervous system I've seen. Exhibits are old, dusty, drab. The preserved bodies of murderers, displays of tortured prisoners, collections of tumors and congenital malformations, comparisons of healthy and diseased bodyparts, and general atmosphere are amazing! Not for the squeamish, but if your children are normal emotionally healthy teens, they would love this place.
Written 22 November 2012
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Stuart M
Southampton, UK110 contributions
Jan 2018 • Couples
I've been meaning to come here for many years and finally got around to it yesterday. My wife (Thai) was not going to come as she doesn't like this sort of stuff but she did and enjoyed it.It's very educational and factual.
I want to get one thing out in the open first and that it was great value for money. People have complained about the two different prices for Thai and Non-Thai but I can't see the issue. I come from the UK and you pay a different price to get into some attractions if you are a local so whats the difference? We forget that Thai people pay their taxes and some of those go to pay for museums and national parks as the costs aren't covered by the entrance costs. This is no exception and as a Non Thai that doesn't pay local taxes I am more than happy to pay a higher price (which is still very reasonable). For 200baht (£4.50) I had three hours of entertainment and education, in my book thats a bargain especially given that I had the use of a free headset in English. You have a locker at the main museum which is free to keep your things in. No Photos are allowed in the museum.
The museum was easy to find from the front of the hospital. There are in fact three buildings and they are laid out as such: At the entrance on the ground floor you need to leave some ID in exhange for a visitor pass. The main museum on the second floor contains three different smaller parts to the museum. The first is about healthcare and pathology in Thailand and heart disease, reproduction and other illnesses. There are preserved foetuses in jars in different stages of growth and with different medical issues including conjoined twins etc but all in keeping with a medical exhibition. The second room has details of the Tsunami and is very well done and has a 15 mins film subtitled in English. The rest of this very large room contains photos of injuries to people from stabbing, explosions, car accidents etc although you could easily walk past this bit if you're not paying attention. There are also a lot of exhibits and a few mummified bodies in cabinets as you may have seen on the internet. The cabinets contain lots of body parts showing things like a heart with a stab would etc so once you've seen one of these unless your interest is medical you may find that once you've seen one you might move on. The museum is very much educational rather than being "a death museum" as some have pointed out. The third room contains details of parasites etc and again is very interesting. We spend about 1.5-2hr in the main medical part of the museum although we skipped some items. You then go downstairs and collect your ID and head around the corner to the next part which is up on a third floor in and older building. This is the Congdon Anatomical Museum. This part of the museum is different and more suited to those who want to see how the body works and is made up and it is very interesting albeit as one would expect very graphic. Go downstairs out the door and turn left and at the end of this building is a room which is part of the same building but accessed from outside there is an exhibition of more historical nature (it's closed from 29 Jan until July I think) although unless your really interested in this type of thing it may not be of interest.
There is also another museum around the corner which I'm led to believe is new and is more of a history museum and from the small guide book looks quite large but it was shut and we didn't visit it (although I would return to visit on another day) This museum is called the Siriraj Bimuksthan Museum. Despite the fact that two parts of the museum where shut we had a good time and great value for money. I would imagine that if your interest is more medical and historic you could spend most of the day here. If it's just the blood and guts and interest in the Tsumani and general health then you won't be dissapointed. We got a taxi there but you can go by boat as others have explained.
I was expecting it to be very macabre and disturbing but I didn't find that to be the case (and I don't like horror type films etc). Yes there are dead bodies and parts of bodies / malformed babies on display and malformed babies but they are in medical context and not displayed in a sensationlised way. We found this visit educational rather than macabre and being a medical museum this was the intended purpose I'm sure.
All in all a very worthwile visit and well recommended. The photos are from the Free small guide book they give you.
I want to get one thing out in the open first and that it was great value for money. People have complained about the two different prices for Thai and Non-Thai but I can't see the issue. I come from the UK and you pay a different price to get into some attractions if you are a local so whats the difference? We forget that Thai people pay their taxes and some of those go to pay for museums and national parks as the costs aren't covered by the entrance costs. This is no exception and as a Non Thai that doesn't pay local taxes I am more than happy to pay a higher price (which is still very reasonable). For 200baht (£4.50) I had three hours of entertainment and education, in my book thats a bargain especially given that I had the use of a free headset in English. You have a locker at the main museum which is free to keep your things in. No Photos are allowed in the museum.
The museum was easy to find from the front of the hospital. There are in fact three buildings and they are laid out as such: At the entrance on the ground floor you need to leave some ID in exhange for a visitor pass. The main museum on the second floor contains three different smaller parts to the museum. The first is about healthcare and pathology in Thailand and heart disease, reproduction and other illnesses. There are preserved foetuses in jars in different stages of growth and with different medical issues including conjoined twins etc but all in keeping with a medical exhibition. The second room has details of the Tsunami and is very well done and has a 15 mins film subtitled in English. The rest of this very large room contains photos of injuries to people from stabbing, explosions, car accidents etc although you could easily walk past this bit if you're not paying attention. There are also a lot of exhibits and a few mummified bodies in cabinets as you may have seen on the internet. The cabinets contain lots of body parts showing things like a heart with a stab would etc so once you've seen one of these unless your interest is medical you may find that once you've seen one you might move on. The museum is very much educational rather than being "a death museum" as some have pointed out. The third room contains details of parasites etc and again is very interesting. We spend about 1.5-2hr in the main medical part of the museum although we skipped some items. You then go downstairs and collect your ID and head around the corner to the next part which is up on a third floor in and older building. This is the Congdon Anatomical Museum. This part of the museum is different and more suited to those who want to see how the body works and is made up and it is very interesting albeit as one would expect very graphic. Go downstairs out the door and turn left and at the end of this building is a room which is part of the same building but accessed from outside there is an exhibition of more historical nature (it's closed from 29 Jan until July I think) although unless your really interested in this type of thing it may not be of interest.
There is also another museum around the corner which I'm led to believe is new and is more of a history museum and from the small guide book looks quite large but it was shut and we didn't visit it (although I would return to visit on another day) This museum is called the Siriraj Bimuksthan Museum. Despite the fact that two parts of the museum where shut we had a good time and great value for money. I would imagine that if your interest is more medical and historic you could spend most of the day here. If it's just the blood and guts and interest in the Tsumani and general health then you won't be dissapointed. We got a taxi there but you can go by boat as others have explained.
I was expecting it to be very macabre and disturbing but I didn't find that to be the case (and I don't like horror type films etc). Yes there are dead bodies and parts of bodies / malformed babies on display and malformed babies but they are in medical context and not displayed in a sensationlised way. We found this visit educational rather than macabre and being a medical museum this was the intended purpose I'm sure.
All in all a very worthwile visit and well recommended. The photos are from the Free small guide book they give you.
Written 30 January 2018
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Ozzie B
Chiang Mai, Thailand19 contributions
June 2015 • Couples
This museum is only opened on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. Closed for lunch 12 - 1.00pm. What a shame we missed seeing this museum due to outdated information on all the sites pertaining to the museum
Written 17 June 2015
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Twiglet81
Hythe, UK55 contributions
Oct 2011 • Couples
We heard about this museum by reading the Lonely Planet Guide where there was a small box aptly named 'freaky Bangkok', it go in to much detail about the actual museum itself other than to say it was a forensic museum and had the mumified remains of Bangkok's most notorious serial killers. My husband and I we're pretty excited being devotee's of the Crime and Investigation channel, and fascinated by crime, so off we went! It quite a drive from the Sukhumvit district, and is in part of the hospital, but we found it ok with the help of our taxi driver who we arranged to pick us up in an hour. Well, I can honestly say it was nothing like expected inside...The 1st thing we saw as we walked in was roughly 25 preserved baby corpes in glass cases, all with some sort of birth defect (2 heads, hearts hanging out, brain disconnected from body) I must admit I couldn't look for more than a minute or so. Next we came to a display about Elephantitus, where there was a man's ball pickled, there were also several cases with bugs that live inside you, stomach germs, and information on bacteria, etc, considering I had been suffering with Bangkok belly it sent my hypochondria in to over drive! After that we finally stumbled upon the reason we visited the museum, some criminals mummified, I was a little dissapointed that there was no information about them or the crimes they had commited at all. As I turned around from looking at the mummies, I realised surrounding us we're more dead babies in cases, it all got a bit much for me at that point, I began to feel rather dizzy and much to the amusement of the security guards, and other Asian visitors I thought it best to leave. On the exit route thoough one side is lined with photo's of people's corpes after they have been caught in a helicopter blade, been killed by a hand grenade, been murdered and mutilated, commited suicide and many more, on the other side is more babies! Our sign in time and Sign out time were only 5 -10 minutes apart and we had a lengthy wait for our cab!! Overall more of a medical museum in parts, can see how it may appeal to medical students, doctors and trainee's. Really did highlight the difference in culture's, but you need to be pretty strong minded/strong stomached to bear some of it!
Written 19 December 2011
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Paul B
Poulton Le Fylde, UK35 contributions
Oct 2018 • Couples
Finding this place can be tricky. Even with the advice that people have given here.
We got off at Prannok Pier (10) and walked directly inland, up the main road. Keep walking past the two entrances on the right. One is for the nurses and students and the next is the one of the main entrances for the hospital. Keep going till you pass the bank and the next entrance says 'Gate 1' and there'll be a green sign on the inner wall pointing to the Museum. You have to walk quite a way past all the various hospital buildings, but keep going straight down that road, deeper into the hospital. You're looking for building 28, on the hospital map boards. There are more yellow signs to the museum as you go along.
There are three of the museums in Building 28, on the upper floor. You'll have to sign in on the ground floor, first. When you get upstairs you can buy your ticket and have to lock your bags away in a locker. We got the full ticket that included the other history museum, too.
The woman at the counter can provide you with a map to the next building, etc.
The Audio Tour is a must if you don't read Thai. You'll be lost without it. Unfortunately some of the audios don't work when you point the infra-red sensor at them. But you can get the gist of most things anyway. I found the parasitology museum to be really interesting, but this was unfortunately also the one with the most broken audios.
After this building you have a short walk around the back of 28 to find the door into Building 27 for the next museums. They're along the side of here and not in the same door. The anthropology lab is a little further down from the door to the anatomy museum. There's no audio guides in this building, but there are plenty of signs and labelling in English here.
All in all I found the whole place to be fascinating and well worth the time it took to find the place. I'd highly recommend anybody with an interest in biology, science or even just the macabre to come and spend some time here.
I hope the staff do some maintenance on the audio though. It was a bit irritating at times.
We got off at Prannok Pier (10) and walked directly inland, up the main road. Keep walking past the two entrances on the right. One is for the nurses and students and the next is the one of the main entrances for the hospital. Keep going till you pass the bank and the next entrance says 'Gate 1' and there'll be a green sign on the inner wall pointing to the Museum. You have to walk quite a way past all the various hospital buildings, but keep going straight down that road, deeper into the hospital. You're looking for building 28, on the hospital map boards. There are more yellow signs to the museum as you go along.
There are three of the museums in Building 28, on the upper floor. You'll have to sign in on the ground floor, first. When you get upstairs you can buy your ticket and have to lock your bags away in a locker. We got the full ticket that included the other history museum, too.
The woman at the counter can provide you with a map to the next building, etc.
The Audio Tour is a must if you don't read Thai. You'll be lost without it. Unfortunately some of the audios don't work when you point the infra-red sensor at them. But you can get the gist of most things anyway. I found the parasitology museum to be really interesting, but this was unfortunately also the one with the most broken audios.
After this building you have a short walk around the back of 28 to find the door into Building 27 for the next museums. They're along the side of here and not in the same door. The anthropology lab is a little further down from the door to the anatomy museum. There's no audio guides in this building, but there are plenty of signs and labelling in English here.
All in all I found the whole place to be fascinating and well worth the time it took to find the place. I'd highly recommend anybody with an interest in biology, science or even just the macabre to come and spend some time here.
I hope the staff do some maintenance on the audio though. It was a bit irritating at times.
Written 8 November 2018
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Jason S
18 contributions
Feb 2018 • Couples
A large number of truly odd and mostly gruesome exhibits. Not much of it is it in English, and a fair amount isn't labeled even in Thai. There is not a lot of pattern to it either. But the exhibits are sizeable and interesting and really quite unusual. Other reviews describe it accurately. If you're of the mind to come to a place like this, you won't be disappointed.
Written 25 February 2018
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Where can one buy the entrance ticket online for this museum? I don’t see it anywhere even on the official website. Any advise is much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
Written 22 May 2023
200 -300 baht. Depending on the ticket you buy.
Written 28 October 2018
can let know is open every day & what is the opening to close hour ? What of transport more convenient ? can visit personal need any booking before go there ? Any taboos ? exp: ware long pant .
Written 4 February 2017
こちらのページなどで、休館日が日曜日との記載が多いのですが、現在の休館日は火曜日だというコメントもあります。現在の正しい休館日を教えてください。
Written 5 December 2016
2016年9月のパンフレットには、Open daily 10 am. to 5 pm. except Tuesday and officials holidays となっています。なので、火曜日とタイの法定の休日が休館日だと思われます。
Written 6 December 2016
Bonjour Guy,
N'ayant pas réussi à trouver les jours d'ouverture pour visiter le musée médico-légal, je me demande si vous pouvez me renseigner.
Je souhaite le visiter entre le 1 et le 4 janvier 2017. Est-ce ouvert à ces dates ?
Combien de temps est-il nécessaire pour sa visite ?
En vous remerciant de votre réponse,
Cdlt,
Bernard
Written 29 November 2016
Last time we were in Bangkok ( December 26-31st) this museum was closed. I'd like to visit again, but don't want to be disappointed re hours. Does anyone know what dates it closes over the festive season? Many thanks
Written 27 January 2016
The only day the museum is closed is on Tuesday. They keep weird bank hours from 930-1700.
Written 29 January 2016
irisccy
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Hi.
I just found out about this place and am very interested to go. However, I found out on the first page of Goggle's search that it's permanently closed.
Is it true? Am I too late?
Hope to hear (hopefully some good news) soon. Thanks in advance!
Written 8 January 2016
Is open.. Close on Tuesday I heard
Written 15 July 2018
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