Ankara Üniversitesi Eczacılık Müzesi

About Ankara Üniversitesi Eczacılık Müzesi

Ankara Üniversitesi Eczacılık Müzesi is the pharmacy museum of the Ankara University Faculty of Pharmacy. It opened with an official ceremony on 16 December 2013, the anniversary of the founding of the faculty, and the university says it was registered on 3 December 2019. The museum lets visitors compare pharmacy today with pharmacy in the past. It has three parts. The İlaç Müzesi (Medicine Museum) shows ready-made medicines used in the Ottoman period and the first 30 years of the Republic, raw materials used to make medicines and plant extracts, with close to 1000 objects on display. The Cihaz Müzesi (Equipment Museum) holds instruments used at the faculty since its foundation that have since gone out of use, including microscopes, scales and other devices for drug analysis and research; small items sit in purpose-built cabinets and larger ones stand in the open. Both collections had served for years before moving into newly arranged rooms. The third part, the Müze Eczane, recreates a pharmacy of the 1900s. It has a magistral section, where medicines written on prescriptions were made by hand, with scales, mortars and a mini autoclave once used to prepare eye ointments and drops, and a counter window through which medicines were handed to patients after being entered in the prescription register. Prescription registers from three old pharmacies, dating from 1925 to 1970, are kept here, along with glass ampoules of injections and saline and original packaging of early twentieth-century medicines. The faculty says the museum is always open to the public, and it is also used in teaching its pharmacy students. Opening hours are not published, so it is worth contacting the faculty before a visit.