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Paula Stradiņa Medicīnas vēstures muzejs | |
  Location within Riga  Pauls Stradins Museum of the History of Medicine (Latvia) | |
| Established | 1957 |
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| Location | Antonijas ielā 1, Vecrīga, Riga,  Latvia |
| Coordinates | 56°57′25.5″N 24°06′28.5″E / 56.957083°N 24.107917°E |
| Collection size | over 203,000 artifacts |
| Director | Edīte Bērziņa |
| Website | www |
Paul Stradins Museum of the History of Medicine (Latvian: Paula Stradiņa Medicīnas vēstures muzejs) is museum in Riga, one of the largest medical museums in the world. The exposition presents the development of medicine and pharmacology from ancient times. A separate section is devoted to the history of medicine Latvia.
The museum building, at Antonijas Street 1, Riga,[1] was designed in 1875 in the style of neo-Renaissance by a Riga architect, academician of architecture Heinrich Scheel. For the needs of the museum building was remodeled in 1957.[1]
- ^ a b Museum website