Guided tour of the National College of Pharmacists

Name: Guided tour of the National College of Pharmacists
Start: 2022-09-17T13:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Siège de l'ordre national des pharmaciens

The National Order of Pharmacists invites you to discover its architectural heritage and its collections of pharmacy history.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entry upon registration (registration opens on 1 September)

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The headquarters of the National Order of Pharmacists is composed of two mansions, characteristic of the architectural eclecticism of the Second Empire and the buildings built around the Parc Monceau during this period. The Moorish pavilion, commissioned by Gaston Menier, grandson of Jean Antoine Brutus Menier, founder of the chocolate factory of the same name, reflects the family taste by mixing oriental influence and Norman style. This pavilion now houses collections of pharmacy history: utilitarian objects (mortars and pestles, cork blocks, stills), pharmacy pots (Nevers earthenware, wooden silenes), prints, posters and books offer a panorama of pharmaceutical history and art. The Menier drugger, designed by Jean Antoine Brutus, is the major piece in the collections. Consisting of nearly 800 pots of blown glass, it brings together the essential drugs of the therapeutic arsenal in the nineteenth century. In the lounges overlooking Parc Monceau, you can discover an exhibition dedicated to plants, essential in Western therapeutics, from antiquity to the present day.

About the location

Siège de l'ordre national des pharmaciens

4-6 avenue Ruysdaël 75008 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

The National Order of Pharmacists is located in two buildings, 4 and 6 avenue Ruysdaël, which resemble a composite but harmonious architectural complex of neo-Gothic style and 18th century pastiche. Reflecting the architectural eclecticism of the hotels built at the end of the Second Empire, these buildings are precious testimonies of an era and a way of life, especially since many of them were destroyed during the last half century.
The building of number 4* was built before 1875 by the architect Pellechet; in a rather sober neo-Gothic style, with a brick and stone facade decorated with a sculpted cornice of Renaissance style separating the ground floor from the first floor. Gaston Menier, the younger son of Émile-Justin, a famous chocolatier, acquired this mansion and moved there in 1879 after his marriage. He commissioned important works. On the avenue, the attic floor reserved for servants gave way to the current second floor, treated in the style of “Byzantino-Venetian”. He demoli