Art and Health | Pharmacy Museum in Porto

The Pharmacy Museum in Porto carried out a thematic visit, entitled "Art and Health", on August 24th 2020 to mark the Artist's Day. The visitors were invited to take a journey through the way art has served health over the centuries. The objective was to present the history of health and pharmacy over time, relating, in the context of its collection, the different cultures and civilizations that are part of its permanent exhibition.
Participants took a journey through the history of health and pharmacy, where different artistic manifestations of each people and civilization were unveiled, from the iconography of ancient Egypt, using anthropomorphic forms, through Italian majolica at the service of iconography religious, to the representation of elements of nature in the exotic Islamic pharmacy.