Brief description: The museum is intended to cover an important section of cultural heritage of Azerbaijan people and the history of the development of medicine and public health of the republic starting with the ancient times to the present days. It is also intended to show the contribution of the Azerbaijan scientists in the development of home and world science. The Museum is situated in the building of a former Cherni Gorod hospital. The memorial of Asclepius, who in Greek Mythology was the God of Health, comes first in the exposition of the Museum. In the second hall the methods and techniques of people's medicine are demonstrated, including scholastic medicine and a small collection of plants of Azerbaijan fauna, which is famous for its medicinal properties.
The models of the surgical instruments of the Middle Ages, the photos of the people's doctors of Azerbaijan, their personal things, research documents attract the visitor's attention. There are also the photocopies of some medical theoretical works of the people's doctors of Azerbaijan (13-19 c.c.), the originals of which are in the Institute of Manuscripts of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences. The photos of the graduates, professors and teachers of the first graduate of the Medical faculty of Bake University, also various medical journals published in Baku are displayed in the exposition of the Museum. Being an educational department of Azerbaijan State Medical University (on subject - History of Medicine) as well, the Museum is constantly enriched with the new sections and stands.
Among the sections opened in the Museum recently are "Ministers of
Health (1918-1998)", "Aliyevs and Public Health", “Our brave doctors”(Chingiz Mustafayev, Gultekin Asgerova, Mukhtar Gasimov), “Will stay in the world” (Mustfa Topchubashov, Samed Vurgun, Useir Hajibeyov, Aziz Aliyev, Muslim Magamayev, Murtuza Mammadov, Yusif Mammadaliyev), “The medical point of view of Nizami” (medical point of view, the illustration of his work), “The students of freedom idea” (The brave students of Medical University died for Garabagh), “Public Health and Development" as well as the personal sections of academicians M. Topchubashov, A. Namazova and A. Aliyev.