History of Pharmacy Museum
The Territorial Pharmacist by Greg Singley
Prints available in the Gift Shop
The History of Pharmacy Museum at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy grew out of the work of Jesse Hurlbut, a former Tucson pharmacist and state pharmacy board inspector, who meticulously collected pharmacy items from around Arizona and elsewhere in the West. The museum opened in 1966 in the old Pharmacy/Microbiology building on Main Campus and was moved to the current College of Pharmacy Building at the Arizona Health Sciences Center in 1982.
Spanning all four floors of the Pharmacy building, the museum contains a collection of over 60,000 bottles, original drug containers, books, store fixtures, and artifacts from Arizona (circa 1880 to 1950), including several large drug store fixtures from Arizona's territorial days.
The History of Pharmacy Museum is located in the College of Pharmacy building on the Arizona Health Sciences campus (south of College of Medicine and University Medical Center, west of College of Nursing building, north of Roy P. Drachman Building), and is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, please call (520) 626-1427.
Something to donate? If you have items to add to our collection, contact the curator