Society's museum to reopen to the public
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society's museum will reopen to the public in the new year. Access will be permitted on Tuesday afternoons, from
1.30 to 4.30pm, by prior appointment with the museum staff.
Members and their guests are still able to view the displays during office
hours.
Among the displays on view will be the “Healing science” exhibition,
which traces 1,000 years of pharmacy history. Visitors will also see
displays of selected pieces from the museum’s delftware collection,
a display about the history of the museum and its collections, and a
temporary exhibition about the German Hospital in Dalston, London.
The new arrangements follow a decisions taken by the Society’s
Council at its December meeting. The Council had been told that the musuem
risked losing its registered
status if it did not allow public access
(PJ, 13 December, p825).
The keeper of the Society’s museum collections, Briony Hudson,
said: “This is a really positive step forward for the museum, allowing
us to present more pharmacy history to visitors and to put the work of
the Society and its members in context.”
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