page_title: Pharmacy Museum of the University of Basel
section_title: Remedies, drugs and medications
hierarchical_section_title: Pharmacy Museum of the University of Basel / Exhibition / Remedies, drugs and medications
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Blick in den Ausstellungsraum Materia medica obsoleta
context_page_description: The Pharmacy Museum of the University of Basel shows in its permanent collection the history of remedies and their fabrication. Designed as a collection of evidences and for studies, the museum has been founded in 1924 by Josef Anton Häfliger and has been preserved until this day in its original form as a 'scientific cabinet'.
  The museum is one of the largest and most significant collections of pharmaceutical objects and the history of pharmacy. It contains pharmaceutical ceramics, complete furniture of historical pharmacies, an alchemical laboratory, mortars, historical first aid kits, books, medications used in the past, and everything that has to do with the fabrication of remedies.
context_section_description: Various aspects of diseases and illnesses, as well as various concepts of healing, are exemplified by a considerable collection of drugs and medications from all over the world.
caption: View of the exhibition room »Materia medica obsoleta«
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