THE MUSEUM OF PHARMACY

Opened in 1972, the collections of the museum reunite over 6.600 exhibits dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
These exhibits came from 67 sources: pharmacies, pharmaceutical offices, medical institutions and private persons from 32 cities in the country.
The building situated in the Small Square in which the museum functions is a historical and architectural monument with gothic and Renaissance elements, dating from 1568.
The museum is composed of an office, a laboratory and a homeopathic exhibition (including 2900 exhibits). The first room of this museum – the office – is a traditional element in the configuration of any pharmacy, its role being that of displaying the medicinal products.
The furniture was ordered and produced in Vienna in 1902, especially for the pharmacy functioning at that time, which had changed its name into "La vulturul negru" (The black eagle’s). Although the museum administrates numerous exhibits characteristic for the past centuries, the office accurately renders the image of the former pharmacy. The old pharmacy did not include any instruments for the preparation of the medicines but only the cabinets and the recipients necessary for the depositing and the displaying of these medicines. Among the instruments displayed in the first room, a bronze pestle dating from 1597 and used in the preliminary operations for the preparation of the medicines is the only one that stands out, being the oldest object in the collection.
A narrow corridor leads to the second room where medical instruments and a series of surgical kits are displayed along with scissors and microscopes and illustrations taken from old documents and publications.
The space allocated to the pharmaceutical laboratory illustrates the complexity of the process of elaboration of the medicines and their evolution, in close connection with the evolution of the medical and pharmaceutical concepts. Balances of various types, mortars and pestles, machines used for crushing and grinding the raw materials, filters, distillation devices, metallic and ceramic recipients, Laboratory glassware etc are exhibited here.
The third and last room is reserved to homeopathy. This practice rejoiced of a great popularity in Sibiu, Samuel von Hahnemann, the promoter of this practice, working here for a period of over a year as the secretary of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal.
The homeopathic collection of the museum comprises over 2900 exhibits, among which kits and phials containing homeopathic prepared products, taken over from the former “Angel’s” Pharmacy.
Documentary materials regarding the pharmaceutical activity are also displayed within this room. The first edition of the Roman Pharmacopoeia, published in Bucharest in 1862 must be mentioned here.

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