Vaidyaratnam Ayurveda Museum

The museum provides a captivating journey to the tourists beginning from the Vedic era during which Ayurveda was discovered through the development eras of Samhita and Samgraha and then finally to the contemporary period with the help of scriptures, pictures, and sculptures.Visitors interested in the legacy of Ayurveda passed down from generation to generation can observe the same here.

The museum is housed in an old traditional spacious two stored main building. The main Museum has separate galleries with presentations about the history of Ayurveda from mythological, Vedic, Sahitha, Sangraha, Medieval period, along with displays on Kerala’s Ayurveda tradition. The museum also has a 3D gallery for traditional education, treatments, medicine manufacturing and its present developments, a library with a massive collection of ancient scripts and texts used by Ashtavaidyas and a Multimedia Touch Screen digital Library with a large collection of videos of Kerala Ayurvedic treatments and digital palm leaf manuscripts.

The audio-visual theatre, depicting the origin, growth and development of Ayurveda with a facility to accommodate 40 persons at a time is undoubtedly the show-stopper of the museum. There are also exhibits manifesting the facts and myths associated with the history of Ayurveda. Moreover, the museum building itself is 100 years old, a symbol of the rich architectural heritage of Kerala. The richness, the variety and the evolution of Ayurveda in India is perfectly enshrined here.
Getting there
Nearest railway station: Thrissur Railway Station, about 9 km
Nearest airport: Cochin International Airport, about 42 km
Google map coordinates: F65R+J9 Thaikkattussery, Thrissur, Kerala