The study of "Ông Năm" — the doctor who found the plague bacillus and made Nha Trang his home
The story of a great man bound up with Nha Trang itself
Original objects: his study, his telescope, his letters
On Trần Phú — you pass it anyway
It only opens during office hours on weekdays — put it in a weekday morning before the beach; keep your voice down, the Pasteur Institute is still working.
Alexandre Yersin — Pasteur's most gifted pupil, the man who identified the plague bacillus and who found the Lâm Viên plateau that became Đà Lạt — spent the last fifty years of his life in Nha Trang. The fishermen of Xóm Cồn called him affectionately Ông Năm, Mister Five: the French doctor who treated the poor for nothing, kept horses to make serum, and sat up at night watching the stars.
The museum occupies the Pasteur Institute he founded here in 1895, and his office is kept as it was — the telescope, the laboratory instruments, his letters, thousands of original objects. Half an hour is enough to understand why a European of that stature asked to be buried in Khánh Hoà soil, and why streets and schools in Nha Trang carry his name.
Come to Nha Trang without eating gỏi cá mai and the trip is not complete
One family, one recipe, nearly 50 years. Fish landed that morning, rolled in rice paper and dipped in a secret fish sauce — the same taste since 1977.
