
Exploratory research project
All Things Apothecary in 16th-20th-century Transylvania. The History of Pharmacy Collection in Cluj-Napoca. Pharmacies of the XVI-XX centuries in Transylvania. The Pharmacy History Collection from Cluj-Napoca
code PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-1562
Financed from the state budget, through UEFISCDI
Total amount of the contract: 1.192.842 lei
Running: 2021-2023
project director Dr. Gruia Ana-Maria
team: Dr. Maria Pakucs-Willcocks, Dr. Ioana Gruiță, Dr. Ioana Cova, Dr. Alexandru Rădulescu
collaborators: Dr. Márta Guttmann, Dr. Kovács Zsolt, Dr. Magó Andrea Beatrix, Cornelia Rotariu, Radu Cordoș, Tudor Tomescu
The general goal of the project is to create the first exhaustive catalog of the Pharmacy History Collection from Cluj-Napoca and distribute it to a wide range of specialists and the general public, internationally. The team is considering a catalog in six volumes, in English, published by an accredited publishing house in Romania. The catalog will also be available online, in pdf format, on the project website (in progress).
The project also aims at a number of intermediate/secondary objectives:
O1. Visiting representative European museums of the history of pharmacy to allow team members comparative documentation of current conservation, restoration and display strategies for such heritage assets, acquisition of other relevant collection catalogs and bibliographic works, and networking by specialists in the field.
O2. Cleaning, consolidation and restoration of artefacts in the collection that require such specialized interventions (approx. 500 heritage goods of various types).
O3. Obtaining new knowledge related to the artefacts in the collection, through the latest methods: microscopic investigations, micro-photographs and specialized chemical analyzes of samples of materia medica kept in some of the old containers.
O4. Transcription, translation and analysis of all the manuscripts in the collection, most of them unique.
O5. Research and presentation of the most important new discoveries regarding the history of Transylvanian pharmacy from the 3th century obtained on the basis of the research of the collection at international conferences and through at least XNUMX articles in prestigious journals (ISI/ErihPlus).
O6. Promotion of the project, its activities and results, through: an own website (Romanian-English), posts on social networks, book launch in 2023.
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