A public area from Apoteket Hjorten, a pharmacy in Oslo, has been reconstructed inside the Norwegian Pharmacy Museum (Norsk Farmasihistorisk Museum), showing what an urban pharmacy looked like in the 1860s. The museum preserves Norway's pharmaceutical history, exhibiting items, inventory and literature collected from across the country. Its collection holds more than 19,000 items, which suits visitors with an interest in the history of medicine and pharmacy.
The museum occupies Generalitetsgården, a former private residence from Christiania dating to 1714. The house was demolished in 1918 and later rebuilt at the Norwegian Folk Museum on Bygdøy, and the corner rooms on the first and second floors survive from the original building. The museum was established in 1963, opened in 1974 and is run in cooperation with the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
A herbal garden, added in 1982, holds about 160 herbs, trees and shrubs used in traditional remedies or mentioned in Old Norse myths and legends.
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