GENESIS AND EVOLUTION OF HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PHARMACEUTICAL HERITAGE: THE PROBLEM OF PERIODIZATION

Abstract

The emergence and formation of the historical and cultural pharmaceutical heritage is due to the processes that took place in the field of museum development and in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the evolution of the pharmacist profession itself. The genesis of the historical and cultural pharmaceutical heritage began in the Renaissance and lasted until the second half of the 19th century when formation of the first pharmaceutical collections began. Pharmacists were active collectors of medicinal products of plant, animal and mineral origin. The second stage in the evolution of the historical and cultural pharmaceutical heritage covers the period from the second half of the 19th century to the 1940s and is marked by the emergence of the first pharmaceutical museums. The third stage began in the 1950s and continues to this day. It is characterized as the "boom" of the emergence of pharmaceutical museums around the world.