The Mission of the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences is to provide a stimulating environment for public education on health and medical sciences, past, present and future; for local and overseas visitors to appreciate aspects of Hong Kong’s rich medical heritage, including Traditional Chinese Medicine as well as Western Scientific Medicine; to be a centre for research in medical history and for preservation and display of objects relating to the development of medical and health sciences in Hong Kong.

香 港醫學博物館的使命，旨在提供具啟 發性的環境，促進公眾對過往、現今和將來有關健康及醫學常識的教育，讓本地與海外訪客能欣賞到香港豐富的醫學遺產，包括傳統中醫及西方醫學；並成為醫學歷 史研究、保存及展出香港醫療與健康科學發展等文物的中心。


Its Vision is to become an outstanding institution amongst museums in Hong Kong and similar museums internationally, where lessons from history and lessons for health are skilfully presented in an integrated fashion, at a site where Hong Kong’s historical fight against infectious disease actually took place, and in collaboration with other organizations, to provide first-class educational and cultural activities to persons of all ages,  so that they can learn to stay healthy and be inspired to face the challenges of the future.

博 物館的願 景， 是成為一所傲視全港以至國際同儕的醫學博物館，就在這位處香港史上力抗傳染病的地點，把歷史事蹟一一活現眼前，並揉合起歷史教訓和健康課題，別出心裁地向 公眾呈現；更與其他機構及組織攜手合作，為不同年齡人士提供高質的教育及文化活動，增進公眾對維持健康的認識，激勵他們勇對未來的挑戰。