[attach id=647641 size="medium" align="right"]A typical decorative five-litre glass flask that used to be displayed in dispensaries.[/attach]

A series of one-hour tours of a pharmacy museum in Rabat are being held on May 17. The museum offers visitors the possibility to discover what used to happen behind the dispensing bench of Maltese pharmacies up to around 80 years ago.

The museum contains a variety of coloured bottles, mortars and pestles, a collection of glass ware, a pill machine, sachet mould, druggist sundries and much more.

Visitors will learn about the Latin names of medical products and will be given the opportunity to read prescriptions written by medical practitioners and dispensed by pharmacists in a collection of 100-year-old books. The museum also features a library.

The tours of the pharmacy museum, which is situated at the National Archives Office (former Santo Spirito Hospital) in Hospital Street, Rabat (next to the local council office) will be held on Thursday, May 17 from 9.30 to 10.30 and 10.30 to 11.30am, and between 4.30 and 5.30pm and 5.30 to 6.30pm. Participation is free. To book a place, call or send a text message on 9942 4176.

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