alth and Pharmacy Museum proposes an attractive and unusual experience through 5000 years of health history.
Its vast collection includes objects of rare artistic, anthropological, and scientific value, describing a journey, where each civilization is portrayed under a narrative of disease-fighting and the seeking of healing and pain relief, since the first traces of life on earth until today, passing through cultures and civilizations as distinct in time and place as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Incas, the Aztecs, Islam, Africa, Tibet, China, Japan, among others.
At the Health and Pharmacy Museum Oporto, you are challenged to start your visit with pieces that are approximately 40 million years old and to get to know testimonies of objects that differ in their forms and functions: from surgical instruments, which send us to the conquests of the Roman Empire, to healers and sorcerers’ masks from different African tribes. Throughout the exhibition, we intend to materialize a real journey through the history of humanity.
It is also possible to enter the extraordinary Islamic Pharmacy of the Ottoman Empire, which integrated the interior of a Damascus palace in the 19th century, as well as the Estácio Pharmacy, located at Sá da Bandeira street in Oporto.
Health and Pharmacy Museum Oporto - Rua Eng. Ferreira Dias 728 | 4100-246 Porto
Schedules:
10:00-13:00 – 14:00-18:00, Monday to Saturday (last entry: 12:30 and 17:30)
January 1, Easter Sunday, June 24, December 24, 25 and 31 – closed
Group visits - public and schools, by appointment
Contacts and information: museudafarmacia@anf.pt
- Price
- Between 0 € and 19,33 € (0 € e 18 €)
- Classification
- 6+
- Promoter
- Farmacoope-Cooperativa Nacional das Farmacias Crl
