Yersin Museum Bảo tàng Alexandre Yersin
The doctor’s rooms in the Pasteur Institute
Pasteur museum on Trần Phú: see Yersin’s rooms in 30 to 45 minutes for the doctor’s life in the city. It opens 07:30–11:30 and 14:00–17:00 from Monday through Saturday morning, at 26,000 VND. Saturday afternoon, Sunday, and public holidays are closed. The room is about 100 m², inside the institute at 8 to 10 Trần Phú.
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The museum doors, lettered Bảo tàng Yersin and Musée Yersin
Photo: RG72 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The museum is the small gallery inside the Pasteur Institute on Trần Phú, about 100 m². Allow 30 to 45 minutes. You are here for Alexandre Yersin’s working life in Nha Trang: letters, instruments, and the plain room set up as his reading and resting space, bed included.
Photo: RG72 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The door is 10 Trần Phú, and the old library used as the exhibition house is number 8. The ticket is 26,000 VND a person. Hours are 07:30–11:30 and 14:00–17:00 from Monday through Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon, Sunday, and public holidays are closed. He set up the Nha Trang laboratory in 1895.
Getting there and around
The museum is inside the Pasteur Institute on Trần Phú, at number 10, with the old library at number 8. From a hotel on the beach road, walk along Trần Phú to the institute gate, then to the doors lettered Bảo tàng Yersin.
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From Trần Phú
Walk the beach road to the Pasteur Institute. The museum doors are inside the grounds.
From the station
The station is in the centre. The institute is on Trần Phú, the beach road.
Hours and fees
- Hours
07:30–11:30 and 14:00–17:00, Monday through Saturday morning.
- Closed
Saturday afternoon, Sunday, and public holidays.
- Admission
26,000 VND a person. A 2008 schedule also set 5,000 VND for students, pupils, and children. The price stated now is 26,000 VND.
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