Museum information sheets highlight pharmacy's history
The museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has launched three new illustrated information sheets looking at the history of delftware storage jars, and the Society's headquarters building and the museum.
“English delftware storage jars” is the 14th in a series
on the preparation of medicines. It traces the history of the jars, of
which
the Society’s museum has an important collection, explaining some
of the significance of their shape and decoration.
An illustrated sheet on the history of
the museum gives details of its origins as a scientific and academic
collection of materia medica and shows how its remit has changed to become
a collection that represents the history of the profession both to pharmacists
and non-members alike.
A sheet on the Society’s headquarters gives information about the
Society’s premises at Bloomsbury Square from 1841 until its move
to Lambeth High Street in 1976 and details of its current purpose-built
headquarters.
These two sheets are the third and fourth in a series on the history
of the Society.
Briony Hudson, the Society’s Keeper of the Museum Collections,
said: “These latest information sheets have been produced in response
to the enquiries that we receive on these subjects. We plan to continue
to add to this popular resource, which makes information about the history
of pharmacy more widely available accessible.”
All the information sheets are available from the museum office (tel
020 7572 2210; e-mail museum@rpsgb.org) or can be downloaded from the
museum section of the Society’s
website.
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