Drawers labelled in Latin
Wooden cabinets of hundreds of small drawers.
Nina-no This photo was taken by Nina-no. Please credit this photo Nina Aldin Thune in the immediate vicinity of the image. Distribution: Creative Commons Kunsthistorie.com Farmasihistorie.com — CC BY-SA 2.5 · Mateusz Giełczyński — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Foto: Eva Brænd / Norsk Farmasihistorisk Museum — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Foto: Jon-Erik Faksvaag / Norsk Folkemuseum — CC BY-SA 4.0
A small museum of pharmacy history inside the grounds of the Norwegian Folk Museum on the Bygdøy peninsula, showing a complete nineteenth-century pharmacy reassembled. The pharmacy on display was moved from its original building with all its fittings: wooden cabinets of small drawers labelled in Latin, ceramic and glass jars, precise scales, mortar and pestle, and a back laboratory with distilling apparatus. What the display reveals is where the line ran between pharmacy, chemistry and magic in that period: medicines from plants, others from minerals, others from stranger sources, and prescriptions compounded by hand for each patient rather than ready-made drugs. Pharmacies in Norway were institutions licensed by royal privilege and limited in number by law, so owning one carried high social standing. Small and seasonal — usually visited as part of a visit to the Folk Museum.
Wooden cabinets of hundreds of small drawers.
Prescriptions were compounded by hand, not bought ready-made.
Pharmacies were limited by law and owning one carried standing.
Inside the Norwegian Folk Museum, Bygdøy
The Norwegian Museum of Cultural HistoryThe Folk Museum is Norway in miniature, outdoors: over 160 historic buildings mo1 min walk
The Viking Ship Museum (Museum of the Viking Age)The Viking Ship Museum holds the most complete Viking wooden ships surviving on 3 min walk
The Fram MuseumFram is the ship that sailed farthest north and farthest south of any vessel on 10 min walk
The Norwegian Maritime MuseumThe Norwegian Maritime Museum stands on the Bygdøy peninsula west of Oslo, the l10 min walk
The Holocaust and Minority Studies CentreThe centre occupies Villa Grande on the Bygdøy peninsula, a large house whose hi12 min walkAn open-air museum on Bygdøy holding more than a hundred and sixty historic buildings moved from across Norway and reassembled: farms, storehouses, dwellings and shops, the most important being the Gol stave church of about 1200. The buildings are arranged by region, so you walk from one valley to another. In summer it is staffed by costumed interpreters. It is among the oldest and finest open-air museums in the world.
The peninsula holds Norway's densest concentration of museums: the Viking Ship Museum — closed for a major rebuild until further notice, so check its status — the Fram Museum displaying the polar exploration ship whole inside the building, the Kon-Tiki Museum with Thor Heyerdahl's raft, and the Maritime Museum. Two or three can be combined in a day, and the ferry from the city hall pier is more enjoyable than the bus.
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