Latvian Museum of Pharmacy

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Latvian Museum of Pharmacy
Paula Stradiņa Medicīnas vēstures muzejs
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Museum entrance on Richard Wagner street, Riga.
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Location within Riga
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Latvian Museum of Pharmacy (Latvia)
Established1987 (1987)
LocationRichard Wagner ielā 1, Vecrīga, Riga, Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia
Coordinates 56°56′54″N24°06′41″E / 56.94833°N 24.11139°E / 56.94833; 24.11139
DirectorEdīte Bērziņa
Website www.mvm.lv/en

The Latvian Museum of Pharmacy is a medical museum in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 1987 in association with the Pauls Stradins Museum for History of Medicine and is located on Richard Wagner street in an 18th century building which itself is an architectural monument. The museum is dedicated to understanding the development of pharmacy and pharmacies in Latvia and contains documents and books from the 17th- 19th century, pharmacist tools and devices for preparing drugs, and drugs which were manufactured in Latvia in the 1920s and 1930s