New Orleans Pharmacy Museum

10/14/2026

Mark your calendars! The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum and Giddy Up Two Step are teaming up for A Yule Masquerade on Saturday, December 12th from 6:30PM-9:30PM. The evening will feature Regency dance lessons, festive libations, boutique oysters from Oysters Dandy, a costume contest, and exclusive after-hours access to the museum’s two floors of exhibits!

Masquerade, Regency era, or holiday attire is encouraged but not required. Please arrive in what makes you comfortable, but don’t forget your dancing shoes!

Oysters from Oysters Dandy can be reserved in advance during ticket purchase. A limited quantity of oysters will be available for purchase at the event while supplies last.

Each ticket includes a seasonal welcome cocktail upon arrival. There will be a Venmo bar offering b**r, w**e, and an NA option throughout the evening.

Tickets: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/pharmacymuseum/items/761513/?full-items=yes&flow=1039548

09/30/2026

𝔖𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔰 𝔯𝔢𝔣𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔶 𝔟𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔡.

The Eleventh Hour is approaching:
10.22, 10.26, 10.28
Tickets: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/pharmacymuseum/items/755671/?full-items=yes&flow=1039548

09/30/2026

French Quarter Museum Association members were well represented in the New York Times’s recently published “36 Hours in New Orleans” list!

The Louisiana State Museums, New Orleans Jazz Museum, The Historic New Orleans Collection, and New Orleans Pharmacy Museum all received high praise as recommendations for an afternoon meander through the French Quarter’s museums. The cultural corridor in the heart of the city continues to draw visitors from around the world, and we’re proud to share the spotlight on our fellow French Quarter institutions.

Read the article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/24/travel/things-to-do-new-orleans.html

09/24/2026

𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘯 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦.

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵?

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳.

10.22
10.26
10.28
from 6PM to 8PM.

Tickets: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/pharmacymuseum/items/755671/?full-items=yes&flow=1039548

09/11/2026

𝔚𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔞 𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔬𝔫?

A salon is an intersection for the exchange of ideas. It is an invited gathering of diverse individuals who engage in lively discussion and debate around a certain topic as determined by the host.

Although the salon concept begins in Italy in the 15th century, Parisian salons during the Enlightenment era endure as important incubators for radical ideas in a shifting political and philosophical landscape. During this same period, the salon format arrives in New Orleans and finds favor in a growing circle of Spiritualists, like Henry Louis Rey, who gathered around the seance table to commune with the dead.

The Spirited Salon at the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum was first introduced by Owen Ever and continues to be the premiere seasonal event for visitors to experience the Pharmacy Museum in a new and interactive way. Salon gatherings often abide by Latin philosopher Horace’s definition of the aims of poetry: “either to please or to educate.” At the Spirited Salon, we aim for both.

THE ELEVENTH HOUR strikes: 10/22, 10/26, & 10/28 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Tickets available now: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/pharmacymuseum/items/755671/?full-items=yes&flow=1039548

09/03/2026

Join Mamou Spirits at the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum on Friday, September 25th from 5 to 7 p.m. for an evening of amaro cocktails, medicinal botanicals, museum exploration, and beautiful music. A brief lecture will be given about the history of amaro and the origins of Traiteur. Later in the evening, Pharmacy Museum docent Grace Kennedy will discuss her own research into the relationship between medicine and magic in New Orleans.

This event is free to the public. All adults 18+ are welcome.

RSVP:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/traiteur-amaro-aperitivo-hour-at-the-new-orleans-pharmacy-museum-tickets-1999400080463

Join us Friday, September 25, for Aperitivo Hour at the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum: an evening of bitter spirits, botanical medicine, music and history.

We’ll be serving cocktails featuring Traiteur Amaro and giving a brief talk on the history of amaro and the origins of Traiteur. Grace Kennedy, beloved Pharmacy Museum tour guide, will follow with a presentation drawn from her research into the relationship between magic and medicine in New Orleans.

There will also be live music and a scavenger hunt through the museum.

5–7pm
514 Chartres Street
Free admission. Ages 18+.

New Orleans Pharmacy Museum

09/02/2026

It is September and the first Mostly Ghostly tour of the season is only one week away. Join Grace Kennedy for this journey through medicine, mysticism, and the macabre.

This tour is currently only offered on the last four Wednesdays of September: 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, & 9/30.

Don’t keep the spirits waiting, reserve your ticket while there is still time.

Tickets available through link in bio or by visiting www.pharmacymuseum.org.

09/02/2026

The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum is excited to officially be a Culture Pass Partner with the New Orleans Public Library! Reserve your Culture Pass to visit the Pharmacy Museum this month before they're all gone!
https://nolalibrary.libcal.com/passes/PharmacyMuseum

09/01/2026

It’s time again for the Spirited Salon at the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum.

It is THE ELEVENTH HOUR.

The three occupants of 514 Chartres Street, each residing in their own century, are experiencing a crisis of faith in the eleventh hour. Will they find something that renews their hope, and will they be able to pass it on to whatever, or whomever, comes next?

This event will sell out, so reserve your spot now:
https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/pharmacymuseum/items/755671/?full-items=yes&flow=1039548

October 22nd, 26th, & 28th.
6PM-8PM
$45 General Admission
$30 NOPM Members (members email [email protected] to book)

Each admission ticket includes an alcoholic or NA beverage from the bar.

08/20/2026

While pill-rollers allowed pharmacists to quickly roll out equally-sized pills for customers, the entire process still required the producer to create the clay-like “snake” in advance. Pharmacists would need to be careful to mix the substance evenly, and each pill would need to be either coated or left to dry. Occasionally these coatings would involve things like chocolate for taste or even gold/silver for style, but at their most basic a light dust of rice flour would have to be used to prevent the pills from sticking together in their bottles. Even with the aid of a roller, the process was still time-intensive and prevented accomplishing any true mass-production.

The next major innovation would be to remove the need to make the “snakes” in the first place. In December of 1843, William Brockedon presented a patent called “Shaping Pills, Lozenges, and Black Lead by Pressure in Dies” and showcased a method of compressing an all-powder mixture into a single tablet via a strong, manual hammer blow. Brockedon was not actually a pharmacist or even involved in medicine at all– he was an artist with a vision to compress the lead shavings from pencils back into a usable tool. However, he theorized that his method would be useful for medicines, and quickly after his method was adopted by many as a way to create very pure forms of medications without the need for fillers and gums. Because they did not require these additives, his method was particularly useful for military pharmaceutical production and could easily be stored and transported.

Brockedon’s method also allowed for the development of true industrial machines that could rapidly produce pills. One company in particular was instrumental in bringing this technology to the public: Burroughs Wellcome & Co. branded a specific tablet-making machine that produced tablets they called “tabloids.” The term was so popular that it began to be used to refer to anything “compressed” and designed for quick consumption. Newspapers adopted this terminology to refer to short-form works designed to be read quickly and the modern-day “tabloid” was born, and has survived well past the original usage of the term.
👩🏻‍💻: Kamryn Pigg