Pharmacy Museum Silent Auction Fundraiser 2024

Funds raised from the silent auction will benefit the preservation and upkeep of the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum building, as well as the items it houses. Your generosity will allow our organization to pursue more community-based events and programming and provide a comprehensive understanding of the history of healthcare and medicine to local, national, and international visitors.

Tickets to the "Pick Your Poison" Fundraiser can be purchased by visiting https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/pharmacymuseum/items/551642/calendar/2024/10/?full-items=yes

Since its founding in 1950, the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum has been acquiring, preserving and interpreting an extensive collection of artifacts and resources documenting the history of pharmacy and medicine in the 19th and early to mid 20th centuries, with a particular focus on New Orleans and Louisiana. The museum is a non-profit organization that offers visitors a better understanding of pharmacy, medicine, illness, and healthcare in past centuries, and how it has come to shape the world of welfare today. The building that the museum occupies is itself a historic landmark – a classic creole townhouse in the French Quarter constructed in 1822-1823 that served as the apothecary and residence of Louis J. Dufilho, Jr., the first licensed pharmacist in the United States, until 1855.