On Sundays, the Pharmacy Museum is open for the 10 a.m. guided tour ONLY. The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum is a participant in the NARM network of museums and offers reciprocal membership benefits to all NARM members.

Since its founding in 1950, the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum has been acquiring, preserving and interpreting an extensive collection of artifacts and resources documenting the history of pharmacy and medicine in the 19th and early to mid 20th centuries, with a particular focus on New Orleans and Louisiana.

The museum is closed for self-guided tours on Sundays and Mondays. Tuesday mornings are reserved for 10am guided tours for student groups. To reserve a student group tour, please see “group visits” below.

Files about historic pharmacies in New Orleans and elsewhere in Louisiana; Photographs of historic pharmacies in the United States; Institutional records, photographs, and clippings documenting the origins, history and collections of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum.

Why is the Pharmacy Museum here? The first licensed pharmacist in the United States, Louis J. Dufilho, Jr., had the building the museum occupies constructed in 1822-1823. He opened an apothecary on the ground floor and lived with his family on the second and third floors until 1855, when he sold the building and business, returned to France ...

History of African American Pharmacy in New Orleans Through the 20th Century. Dr. J. William Rosenthal Spectacles Collection. Ear, Nose and Throat. To Make Common Ink. The Housecall - the Afflicted, the Indecent, and the Indisposed

Built 200 years ago in the heart of the French Quarter, our venue is an ideal and unforgettable New Orleans setting for any special event. RENTAL INFORMATION The Pharmacy Museum's primary event space is our lush 2200 square foot courtyard.

The Through the Back Door Tour of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum is a specialty Carnival-edition historical tour on the topic of Vice and its Devices. The Carnival tradition is one of indulgence and revelry, when decency takes a back seat and the world is turned on its head.

museum shop In the museum gift shop you will find books, t-shirts, posters, antique bottles, stickers, postcards, hats, tote bags, and items from local artists. A selection of these items are available for purchase online.

The library and archives of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum holds books and periodicals related to the history of pharmacy and medicine, as well as prescription files, pharmacists' recipe books, individual prescriptions, patent medicines advertisements, ephemera, posters and …