Autumn program of the Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar
We are pleased to announce this year that the Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar has started the implementation of the autumn part of its program contents. We tried to create an interesting and rich program that includes various contents for all age groups.
Work is currently underway to set up a new large exhibition, and it is a guest exhibition of the Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy entitled "DISCRETE CHARM OF PHARMACY GLASS: glass from Croatian pharmacies in the collections of the Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy HAZU".
There are also various pedagogical and educational workshops for our youngest visitors, two more new exhibitions, one of which we will open as part of the Zadar City Day celebration, and many more surprises for the end of the year.
In order not to reveal everything to you right away and in the hope that you will like everything we are preparing for the coming period, we hereby invite you to continue following our work because we will soon bring more information...
The exhibition "DISCRETE CHARM OF PHARMACY GLASS: glass from Croatian pharmacies in the collections of the Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy HAZU"
OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION: 03.10.2024. at 12:00
Duration: 03.10.-15.12.2024.
AUTHORS OF THE EXHIBITION:
prof. Ph.D. sc Stella Fatović-Ferenčić and prof. Silvija Brkić Midžić, museum consultant, Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy HAZU
CURATOR OF THE EXHIBITION:
Ph.D. sc. Vedrana Jović Gazić, museum advisor, Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar
THE DISCREET CHARM OF PHARMACY GLASS: glass from Croatian pharmacies in the collections of the Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy HAZU is the title of a new guest exhibition at the Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar, which tells the story of the use of glass in historic Croatian pharmacies, from the 17th to the 20th century. It is about the selection of used glass objects that were in operation in many famous Croatian pharmacies, primarily in Zagreb (K Zrinjskomu pharmacy, Brodjovin-Sallopek; Gornjogradska ljekarna K crnomi orlu; Aleksander Hržić pharmacy; St. Jurju pharmacy in Maksimirska; K St. Ivan Aleksandar Grlić pharmacy in Nova Vesa; St. Duhu Vojko Arka pharmacy in Ilica; Central pharmacy; Military pharmacy; 11th national pharmacy in Draškovićeva), then in Velika Gorica, Lipik, Valpovo, Jastrebarski, Virovitka, Rovinj, Šibenik and other Croatian cities.
Stalls of various dimensions and recognizable shapes are the most numerous in number, most often made of transparent colorless glass, then of milky white glass, cobalt blue, yellow and brown to black and red colored glass. Among the exhibits is an interesting example of a historical travel pharmacy, with its contents, as well as a significant group of packaging items and products from the pharmaceutical industry of the 19th and 20th centuries.
In addition to their utilitarian value, many objects contain stylistic elements of the time in which they were made, which is recognized in the selection of glass and the design of forms, as well as in the way of making lavishly decorated inscription fields, symbols of contained elements, raw materials, finished preparations... A large number of exhibited objects contain traces, and in some cases even larger amounts of original content, which especially contributes to the presentation of their authentic practical application.
About the Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy:
At the time of its establishment in 2014, the HAZU Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy had only one large collection, which was created by unifying the materials of the pharmaceutical-historical collection in Zagreb (founded in 1937) and the Museum of the History of Healthcare in Croatia (founded in 1944 at the Association of Physicians). In the 1960s, the materials of both collections (museums) became the property of the Department for the History of Medical Sciences, HAZU. From one large collection at the beginning of its establishment, the Museum's total holdings today number slightly more than 6,000 items distributed in 15 separate collections. Most of the items, including numerous glass items with different purposes, were collected thanks to the enthusiasm of individual pharmacists, members of the older generation of historians of medicine and pharmacy interested in documenting the development of medicine, pharmacy and health culture in Croatia.
