Farmamuseo "Sa Potecaria"

Museum in Villacidro that recreates a traditional pharmacy with a compounding laboratory, scales, instruments and antique pharmacopoeias; currently closed.

Temporarily closedFree admission

Directions

Temporarily closed. The regional portal states that the museum is currently closed and that the date of a possible reopening is not yet known.

About the museum

The core of the collection comes from the pharmacy opened in 1905 in Villacidro by Luigi Mancosu. In 1928 his heirs sold it to Dr Nino Fanni of Guspini, who set up a small laboratory for compounded preparations and chemical analyses.

A bomb attack on 15 August 1945 destroyed much of the most valuable equipment. The surviving pieces, along with those Dr Fanni later acquired from various parts of the world, including medicines distributed by the American army during the Second World War, were used to rebuild a traditional pharmacy in one corner of the building.

The museum, housed in a restored building known as Casa Lussu, displays furniture, apparatus and instruments from the 17th to the 20th century: shelving and preparation equipment from the old Fanni pharmacy, scales from the 17th century onwards, clinical thermometers from the early 19th century, mortars, three travelling pharmacy cases, the oldest from the late 18th century, and a small specialist library of antique pharmacopoeias.

Highlights

Reconstruction of a traditional pharmacy with compounding laboratory
Scales from the 17th century and clinical thermometers from the 19th century
Three travelling pharmacies, the oldest from the late 18th century
Small library of antique pharmacopoeias

Permanent exhibition

Farmamuseo Sa Potecarìa – Traditional pharmacy rebuilt with furniture, compounding instruments, scales, thermometers, mortars, travelling pharmacies and a small library of pharmacopoeias.