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Address:
ETH Zürich, Campus Hönggerberg, HCI J 57.2, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1-5/10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Opening Hours:
Mo - Fr: 8 - 20 h
Contact:
Dr. Barbara Brauckmann
brauckmann@chem.ethz.ch
Phone: +41 44 632 60 81
Fax: +41 44 632 14 27
Links:
Chemische und Pharmkognostische Sammlung
ETH Zürich
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Description:
The small Pharmacognostic and Chemical Collections make up a permanent exhibition in twelve display cabinets on floor H of the Auditorium building. These contain various devices, specimens and documents about the history of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the ETH Zurich over the last 100 years.
The Chemical Collection includes old books, various illustrations and photographs, inventories, reagents, colour samples, old spectroscopes, volt meters, viscometers, microscopes and scales.
The Pharmacognostic Collection consists of exhibits to do with the substances that humans enjoy and become addicted to, including a collection of drugs and some copies of old and valuable herbal medicine books and pharmacopoeias from past centuries. You can see instruments and objects which were used around the start of the 20th century by people who smoked tobacco, opium and hashish, chewed betel and coca or used tea, cocoa, coffee, kava, yerba mate and sake, all over the world.
Also on floor H are temporary poster exhibitions on various topics relating to chemistry and pharmacy.
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