Submit Your Ideas for Renovated History of Pharmacy Museum Displays
Renovations to the Skaggs Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, pictured here in a rendering, are due to complete by late 2019. The building houses the College of Pharmacy and the History of Pharmacy Museum.
The UA History of Pharmacy Museum is getting a makeover – and its leaders want to hear from you about how to make it the best museum it can be.
The museum is being updated as part of the ongoing renovation of and addition to the Skaggs Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, which houses the College of Pharmacy. Work on the building began in the fall and is expected to be completed in late 2019.
The museum, which opened in 1966, has hundreds of thousands of items, including bottles, original drug containers, books, store fixtures and artifacts from between roughly 1880 and 1950. With a renovated space on the horizon, leaders are asking the UA community to submit any and all ideas on how best to display one of the world's leading collections of pharmacy artifacts.
Ideas can be sent via email to Alli Benjamin, the college's communications director, at abenjamin1@email.arizona.edu, or Stephen Hall, the museum's curator, at hall1@email.arizona.edu. The deadline to submit is mid-April.
For more information, check out the video below.