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The museum was founded in 1957 by Dr. Jesus Isamat Vila (Olot, 1895-Barcelona, ​​1981), with the name Library - History Museum of Catalan Pharmacy, which considered, for all purposes, as an "auxiliary annex" of the then seminary of history of Pharmacy. Their facilities, together with the new building housing, from that moment, the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Barcelona in Pedralbes campus, were opened in the academic year 1957-1958.
The museum designed by Isamat was part of the tradition of enlightened science museums existing major universities in Europe and the US
However, moving away noucentistes traits of some of these facilities, the Faculty of Pharmacy wanted to give Barcelona a museum of university character, opposed to the idea of ​​"endless rows of neatly ordered copies .. . ... but soulless simple deposit of butterflies. " Designed to be open and dynamic, the student is in the museum a place to work that is exclusively dedicated to the history of the evolution of an important human task: the art of preparing medicines were beyond pure evocation and were "more ideas of objects."
Over time, his legacy has been enriched by acquisitions and donations altruistic point, reaching a historical collection of over two thousand objects, excluding the count in this collection of old pharmaceutical specialties, the largest of collections, along with posters of pharmaceutical advertising are two of the most emblematic of the Museum.
The lack of space for exercising the teaching and dissemination for which it was created and few or no prospects for expansion offered to them, has led the Museum to install part of its windows and corridors Faculty scales. By necessity, was forced to follow the latest trends museum and out to meet his public naturally incorporated into the daily life of students and teachers so that, although difficult climb six floors (no lift) to visit him, the museum receives each of the landings of the faculty.

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