The government is in the process of establishing a first-of-its-kind National Public Health Museum to showcase models, specimens and studies related to public health.

• With the country regularly facing health exigencies, the plan is to educate children, students and people on health-related issues. 
• While India has national museums on Railways, metro, science and art, the health sector has no such apex and advanced-level public museum of the type seen in western countries.
• Notably, it was the covid-19 pandemic that made the government realize the importance of public health, and the museum will provide information related to the history and origin of diseases to discoveries and invention of cures.