The University of Arizona is home to one of the world’s leading museums of its kind, and it’s one that you’ve likely never heard of.
The Coit Museum of Pharmacy is celebrating 60 years on campus. It sits tucked away in the Pharmacy building, just south of Banner – University Medical Center at Speedway and Campbell.
“We actually get a lot of people stumbling across this,” said Heather Ingram, museum director. “They’re absolutely amazed. They have no idea. There’s not a lot of pharmacy museums in the United States. So, we’re one of those rare museums mostly dedicated to pharmacy.”
It is home to more than 60,000 pieces of pharmacy history, many of them displayed in a modern setting…