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The museum as a museological object - The Pharmacy Museum at the University of Basel
Opuscula Musealia, 2016
Founded in 1925, the Pharmacy Museum of the University of Basel is the only museum in Switzerland dedicated to the History of Pharmacy. It houses a unique and extensive collection, with a focus on historical pharmaceuticals, pharmacy furniture, laboratory utensils, ceramics, instruments, books, art-and craftwork. It is located in the old-town of the city of Basel in a building which dates back to the late medieval times. It used to even be visited by the famous Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus in the 1520's. Today, the city of Basel and its region are an international hub for the pharmaceutical industry. The history of the museum is connected to the developments of the pharmaceutical practices, sciences and industry in the 20 th century, when they experienced fundamental changes. The Pharmacy Museum itself underwent major changes in the past two decades but has kept its historical exhibition mode, dating back to the first half of the 20 th century, making it a historical object on its own. By placing the Museum into a framework of cultural, social and technological development, and treating the museum itself as a museological object of study, this article reflects the historical and contemporary position, function and structure of the Pharmacy Museum at the University of Basel.
The Museum of Spanish Pharmacy - A Journey through History
Opuscula Musealia
The Museum of Spanish Pharmacy is a university museum with more than sixty-five years of history located in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Complutense University of Madrid. It forms part of the university's extensive historic-artistic and scientific technical heritage, and is one of the most important museums in terms of age, history and quality of collections housed. Although it was primarily created for teaching purposes, it now also offers guided tours to a diverse public searching for cultural enrichment. It receives more than four thousand visitors a year, who learn about the history of the pharmaceutical profession, the preparation of medicines, and the decorative arts, an area that has always gone hand in hand with the pharmaceutical trade. In spite of the limitations imposed by a low budget and a small staff, it is an active museum which continues to enlarge, conserve and restore its collection, while becoming ever more widely known through an ongoing participation in temporary exhibitions. The museum is approximately seven hundred square meters in size and is housed on two floors, as well as having an additional space in two other buildings that make up the present faculty. The five original pharmacies, two dating back to the 18 th century and three from the 19 th century, are without a doubt the most striking exhibits, and are also supplemented by recreations of an Arabic pharmacy, an iatrochemistry laboratory, and a replica of a 17 th century hospital pharmacy. The rest of the collection is made up of exhibits representing very different techniques and uses: paintings, sculptures and numerous display cabinets with 18 th century medical material, pharmaceutical advertising, amulets, scientific instruments, mortars, apothecarial tools for preparing pharmaceutical compounds, ceramic and porcelain pharmaceutical jars, flasks and other glass utensils, wooden boxes, medicines, medicine chests and travel pharmacies, and much more, all totalling more than nine thousand objects that illustrate how medicines have been prepared, stored and dispensed throughout history.
History of Pharmacy Museum of the Faculty of Pharmacy University of Belgrade
Acta medico-historica adriatica : AMHA, 2009
History of Pharmacy Museum at the Faculty of Pharmacy University of Belgrade was founded in Belgrade in 1952, thanks to many pharmacists and historians, but especially to Mr Andrija Mirković (Mpharm). His precious private collection of antiquities, which he donated to the Faculty of Pharmacy in Belgrade, subsequently a basic one for the Museum foundation, included apothecary vessels, apparatuses, manuscripts and books dated back to the XVI century. Furthermore, there were included many other antiquities, books and manuscripts from pharmacies on the territory of former Yugoslavia, mostly from Serbia, so the entire Museum collection comprises various apothecary vessels: 700 ceramic, wooden, glass, porcelain and halide glass jars, as well as the XIX century exhibits from Pravitelstvena Apoteka (the first state-owned pharmacy in Serbia, which operated between 1836-1859). The Museum collection of accessories and vessels is completed with a library and precious archive materials. The libr...
Museum and Society
Many of the artifacts collected during the peak of colonization are made from organic materials and vulnerable to being eaten by insects or decomposition from mould. As part of the technical developments of the twentieth century, chemical treatments seemed to provide a viable solution to prevent decay of many collections. A broader awareness of the long-term effects of the employed toxic substances arose only decades later. Based on existing research, and explorative interviews in half a dozen museums in Europe, this text draws connections between the history of colonial collections, the use of chemicals in museum conservation, and the questions raised by shifting conceptions of the role of museums in the light of restitution and access-provision.
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 2001
This paper argues that historical works in pharmacy are important tools for the clinician as well as the historian. With this as its operative premise, delineating the tripartite aspects of pharmacy as a business enterprise, a science, and a profession provides a conceptual framework for primary and secondary resource collecting. A brief history and guide to those materials most essential to a historical collection in pharmacy follows. Issues such as availability and cost are discussed and summarized in checklist form. In addition, a glossary of important terms is provided as well as a list of all the major U.S. dispensatories and their various editions. This paper is intended to serve as a resource for those interested in collecting historical materials in pharmacy and pharmaco-therapeutics as well as provide a history that gives context to these classics in the field. This should provide a rationale for selective retrospective collection development in pharmacy.
On the issue of methods and methodology of exhibiting in a medical museum
Istoriya meditsiny
This paper analyses ways in which traumatic material has been displayed in medical exhibitions and the use of age restrictions in museums. Museum workers face the difficult task of exhibiting material that could be psychologically traumatic for certain visitors, and this is particularly the case for medical museums, given that the raison d'être of medicine is to fight diseases, ima ges of which it is not pleasant to see. Two key approaches to displaying such material in exhibition space are examined. In the first, focussing on the technical aspect, access to certain elements potentially psychologically traumatic for visitors is restricted through original architectural and spatial solutions, using anthropometric restrictions in some cases. The second, based on cultural studies and anthropology, presents diseases through cultural and historical images. This approach offers the museum a broad range of options (use of classical objects of culture, ethnographic images of diseases, thematic lettering, etc.). This paper uses field materials from Russian and foreign museums, as well as ethnographic research findings. The authors conclude that organising a permanent exhibition of material with different age designations is realistically achievable: all that is required is intelligent spatial planning.
Abstracts of papers and posters safe handling of medicines
Pharmacy World & Science, 1993
The presentation will briefly describe the present pharmaceutical education at German universities according to the law for education and licensure (Approbationsordnung for Apetheker, dated July 19, I989). These rules and regulations are mandatory for all schools of pharmacy in Germany. Clinical pharmacy is not yet included in the curriculum. Hospital pharmacists with a strong clinical pharmacy program convinced faculty members to bring practitioners back to the university to teach courses in clinical pharmacy. The development of such a project between the school of pharmacy at the Albert-Ludwigs-University at Freiburg im Breisgau and the department of pharmacy at the Karlsruhe Klinikum will be described. The aim is, to encourage more hospital pharmacists to cooperate with faculty in teaching undergraduate students. A strong point will be made, why it is essential that practitioners must teach courses in clinical pharmacy. Also a warning will be directed to them, only to teach, what they actually practice. The practitioner educators will be role models for faculty members and students alike. Existing difficulties must not be overlooked between basic research and applied clinical research. The research interests of pharmaceutical sciences teachers and practitioner educators are divers. Zentralapotheke St~dt. Klinikum Postfach 6280 76042 Karlsruhe Germany Knowledge, skills and attitude dcvctopmcnt in Clinical Pharmacy E. wan dcr Klcijn, PhD Michclangelodtraat 34, NL 1077 CC An~stcrdam Despite a history as h)ng as mankind and in contrast to common belief general and specialised medicine, recognised by their distinctive subcultural organisatious and licenses, do not exist for longer than about fourty years in their current appearances. They still show all the social characteristies of the medieval Guild-structure with its master-student relationships and tribal rituals. Pharmacy, the art ofcompoundins and disoeusin~, for quality reasons was divorced from medicine, its art of prescribing in the twelve's century with inherent professional and cultural consequences. The current fragmented heslthcare and-maintenance system has grown weary in terms of managerial, emotional as well as economic outcome and satisfaction. Redesigning healthcare from human needs, and demands-perspectives, provided the desired and available skills, knowledge and means at affordable or accepted expenditure requires new social and professional structures with a emphasis on collaboration among the various practitioners. These needs may require redasigniag pharmacies, locations, jobdascriprions and reimbursement policies for drugs and services. Pharmacy in the past two decades by adopting the clinical adjection, has attempted to offer and merge its services to patients via the medical stuctures. The success has been limited partly due to opposition from both the medical as well the pharmaceutical community. Despite obviously being better trained, experienced and equiped for assisting in pharmaco-tberapeuties than their medical and surgical colleagues, pbarmasists have not yet been able lo convince the public at large of their prime position. Without sacrificing their chemical, physical and technological knowledge and skills that prepares the pharmacist as an expert for individualised cx)mpounding and dispensing of patient's drugase, pharmacists require to adopt a number of competencias that allows them to act harmoniously, professionally in the medical environment with patients. These competencies are categodsed as:-pefformanco in daily practice: * patient consultation on medication history, current reasons for encounter and medical decision making in confident consensus with the physician, * intraspective prescrlption-surveillance, 9 individualising and dispensing medication, " monitoring drug-utilisation,-educatioa and training: * support of prospective therapeutic decision making, 9 retrospective auditing and evaluation, * prescription formulary development,-r~ch and development: " phar maco-cpidemiology, * technology assessment and costs containment, * diagnostic and therapeutic protocol development, 9 pharmacokinetic monitoring services, * mini-technology in medical supplies and pharmaccuties.
Acta medico-historica adriatica : AMHA, 2016
One decade has passed since the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts initiated the foundation of the Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy, providing it with the location of 300m in Gundulićeva Street 24 in Zagreb. The foundation of the Museum was the Collection of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy which was in safekeeping of the Division for the History of Medical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb for more than fifty years. It was put together by combining the materials from two collections: the pharmaceutical-historical collection in Zagreb, which subsequently became the collection of the Institute for the History of Pharmacy, and the one of the Croatian Medical History Museum, which was established in 1944 within the Croatian Medical Association. During the 1960s, the Division for the History of Medical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts took over the materials from both museums. Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy was ...
Brukenthal. Acta Musei IX.2, 2014
The study presents five less known or even unknown portraits of physicians and/or pharmacists from the collections of the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu, important for the history of the German and Transylvanian medicine. They were personalities of the 18th-20th centuries, who were actively involved in the public life and who were remembered by the posterity not only for their medical, scientific and civic deeds, but also because their lives and activity were misused by the cinematography and the Fine Arts of the Nazi Germany or because in the first half of the 20th century they inspired Austrian and Romanian novelists supported by the radical right wing totalitarian regimes, like Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer and respectively Mircea Eliade.