Friday, November 17, 2023
Now 15.00
MNIT lecture hall, Constantin Daicoviciu no. 2, et. 1.
We invite you to the launch of the 7 volumes of the catalog of the History of Pharmacy Collection, printed in English, the main result of the exploratory research project "PHARMATRANS. Pharmacies of the 2021th-2023th centuries in Transylvania. The Pharmacy History Collection from Cluj-Napoca", implemented by MNIT with funding from the Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation in the period 4-2020 (project code PN-III-P1562-ID-PCE- XNUMX-XNUMX). The project was coordinated by Dr. Ana-Maria Gruia, collection manager and curator of the Pharmacy Museum.
Most of the authors and collaborators, as well as the Mega Publishing House, participate in the launch.
Catalog title: "All Things Apothecary in 16th-20th-century Transylvania. The History of Pharmacy Collection in Cluj-Napoca" Vol. 1. Overviews and case studies;
Vol. 2. Wooden containers;
Vol. 3. Pottery and metal containers;
Vol. 4. Glass Containers;
Vol. 5. Manuscripts;
Vol. 6. Books;
Vol. 7. Varia pharmaceutical.
Authors: Dr. Ana-Maria Gruia, Ph.D. Ioana Cova, Dr. Mária Pakucs, Dr. Ioana Savu-Gruita, Dr. Márta Guttmann, Dr. Andrea Beatrix Magó, Dr. Ágnes Găzdac-Alföldy, Dr. Zsolt Csók, Dr. Robert Offner, Dr. Melinda Mitu, Dr. Oana Habor.
Photos: Dr. Alexandru Rădulescu.
After the launch, the catalog will be available for free, in electronic format, on the project website: https://pharmatrans.mnit.ro/
The first volume is an introductory one, presenting the project and the collection with its different categories of pieces, but also a series of studies on Cluj pharmacies, pharmacists Tobias Mauksch and Dr. György József Hintz, pharmaceutical education in Cluj, and a monetary hoard recently discovered in the basement of the Mauksch-Hintz house.
The second volume presents the wooden vessels in the collection, volume 3 the ceramic and metal ones, volume 4 is devoted to the glass vessels, volume 5 details the manuscripts and volume 6 the books, while the last volume is devoted to all the other goods cultural items from the Pharmacy Museum's heritage, from furniture to laboratory equipment, works of art, drugstore bottles from recent archaeological research, etc.
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The PHARMATRANS research project led not only to the publication of the present catalogue, one of the rare exhaustive catalogs of pharmaceutical collections in Europe, but also to the creation of a network of specialists (through museum visits and profile events), to the writing of nine articles in prestigious journals, to nine presentations at national and international conferences, to the restoration of more than 500 of the collection's goods and to the realization of a series of advanced investigations on the materials and especially the contents of the oldest and most interesting containers.
