13/04/2017

Interactive areas in the museum



Museums are and must be restrictive in order to protect cultural patrimony, so we, at the History of Pharmacy Collection in Cluj-Napoca, ask you not to touch the exhibits, not to pull out the drawers – though it might be tempting –  not to push the buttons of the old medical machines and not to take photos with flash.

A test for the senses at the Pharmacy Museum


Still, in three special areas we encourage you to touch! 
Thus, in the Materials’ Room we have prepared a test for the senses – you can smell and guess some of the ingredients used in the apothecary shops of old; in the Officina you can sit by the window bay and based on an old photograph imagine what the pharmacist saw outside in the beginning of the 20th century; and in the Room of Medical Technology you can analyze against the light and compare Xrays from the 1950s and today.
We know everybody wants to have their hands-on at the museum, so we hope he have reached an aceptable compromise. Feel free to visit us for the full experience!

Contemporary Xray (2015)

Xray from the 1950s
 
Street view across the pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, beginning of the 20th century

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