Located right next to Hue Citadel, the restoration project of the Imperial Medicine Institute (Thai Y Vien) of the Nguyen Dynasty was renovated from the old Thanh Noi Hotel at 57 Dang Dung Street, Hue City. People in the ancient capital of Hue must have been familiar with the phrase "Thai Y Vien", which was once the health care agency for not only the royal family and mandarins in the Royal Palace, but also soldiers and people under the Nguyen Dynasty. The Imperial Medicine Institute – Thai Y Vien has always played an important role in the development of the national medicine and pharmacy. For many years now, whenever Hue Festival comes, the Hue Monuments Conservation Center will reserve space to introduce about the Imperial Medicine Institute in Hue cultural heritage as well as the valuable remedies, and the famous of which has been remembered.
Therefore, the project on restoration and preservation of the Imperial Medicine Institute has been processed with a wholehearted enthusiasm and a desire not only to restore a building with its sophisticated historical remark, an architectural highlight, but also a cultural heritage relic with many sustainable values.
The highly qualified doctors from the Hue Oriental Medicine Association are the core of these health care mission. They have studied and applied all traditional remedies and medicine from the Imperial Medicine Institute to process the examination and treatment to patients and visitors. Furthermore, visitors could know more about the medicine tools, medical prescriptions, as well as experiencing the healing meditation, physical therapy and tasting food and drinks which are good for health.
