Why should you go there and how do you do it right?

The Siriraj Medical Museum is a collection of teaching materials from Siriraj Hospital, Thailand's oldest hospital and medical school, located on the Thonburi bank of the river. It incorporates the Ellis Pathology Museum, the Songkran Niyomsane Forensic Medicine Museum, the Parasitology Museum, the Congdon Anatomical Museum, and the Sood Sangvichien Prehistoric Museum. The forensic rooms are colloquially known as the "Museum of Death," and many of the exhibits are actual human specimens—therefore, it is not a museum suitable for young children.

The ticket also includes entry to the Siriraj Bimuksthan Museum on the hospital grounds, a history museum about the river, the old Bangkok district of Noi, and Siamese medicine, which also features an old ship. Allow two hours for your visit. Photography is not permitted in the medical museum, and luggage must be left in the luggage storage area.

Both museums are open from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Wednesday through Monday, and closed on Tuesdays and public holidays. The anatomy rooms at the Congdon Museum close at 4:30 PM. A combined ticket for both museums costs 300 baht for foreign visitors, 100 baht for Thai citizens, and 50 baht for children and teenagers under 18. Ticket sales end at 4:00 PM. The Tha Chang and Tha Phra Chan ferries depart from Wang Lang Pier next to the hospital, while the speedboat stops at Thonburi Station.