Riga’s Pharmacy Museum traces the history of pharmacy and medicine-making through vessels, equipment and reconstructed interiors. It occupies an eighteenth-century house on Riharda Vāgnera Street and is a branch of the Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine.
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A row of jars tells only part of an apothecary’s story. The Pharmacy Museum in Riga also preserves the scales, mortars, labels and working equipment that show how medicines were prepared, stored and identified. Its displays connect the history of a profession with the ordinary work behind a prescription.
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- The museum was founded as a branch of the Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine in 1986.
- The museum’s reconstructed interwar pharmacy uses furniture transferred to the medical history museum in 1966.
- The eighteenth-century building was associated with Heinrich Gablenz’s carriage workshop.
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