Lingzhi Museum (GPS: 5.92123, 116.06914) is a museum in Kota Kinabalu celebrating the goodness of the medicinal mushroom called Lingzhi (Ganoderma lucidum). At this museum, you can get to see on display some amazing specimens of lingzhi that have been collected in Sabah.

Lingzhi is linked to the elixer of immortality, in the story associated with the Moon Cake Festival. In that story, the cruel emperor Hou Yi forced the people of the village to look for a magical fungi that, once he consumed it, he would live forever. Click the link to the Moon Cake Festival to learn more about the story.

Getting there

The Lingzhi Museum is located at Jalan Kepayan, about 15 minutes from the Kota Kinabalu International Airport.

Address

The Lingzhi Museum
Jalan Kepayan,
88200 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
Tel: 088 725555

Lingzhi Museum on Google Street View

(Apr 2016)

Lingzhi Museum is on the map of Museums in Kota Kinabalu

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