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The museum services include:

research of pharmacists' family histories and the history of premises
reproduction of images from a photographic archive
the loan of two travelling showcases.

We offer an historical research service based on the information, archives and objects held by the museum. If you would like to see any objects in the Museum's collections, please contact us to make an appointment. Please note that the majority of our collections are stored off-site, so we would appreciate as much notice as possible in order to make the necessary arrangements to make the items accessible.

Contact details:

Tel: 020 7572 2210
e-mail: museum@rpsgb.org

The full range of museum books and postcards is available for purchase by visitors to the library or by mail order. Three designs of replica jars based on originals in the museum collection are also on sale to visitors and by mail order. A series of information sheets on objects in the history of pharmacy can be downloaded from this website.

Also available from March 2004 is a 15-minute film, How medicines were made, produced by the museum. For more information (press release), click here

The Museum also sells a CD entitled Pictures of Pharmacy Past which contains 30 images from its collections suitable for use in educational presentations. Click here for more information, or for an order form, Click here.