Antall József szerk.: Pictures from the Past of the Healing Arts / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 5. (Budapest, 1972)

The Organization and Collections of the Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum, Library and Archives

Medicinae). His immediate collaborators are the scientific secretary who is the leader of the "Arany Sas" (Golden Eagle) Pharmacy Museum to be opened in 1974 and the József Ernyey Pharmaceutical Library and instructor of the pharmacy museums of the country, and the assistant editor the head of Department I. The organization of the institute is as follows: There are three departments such as I. Public Information and Library, II. Archives, III. Museological Department, which carry out all the necessary work to secure the safe development of the institute. These three departments have scientific tasks like the procession and documentation of the material and administrative tasks which complete it, and in general everything which is necessary to run the institute in accordance with its function and aims. The researchers of the departments form a scientific college which serves the purposes of a reference service in the special field of Hungarian and universal history of medicine. The collaborators of our Institute are researchers having degree in various subjects, assistant librarians, restorers, museum executives having a specialized higher secondary education and caretakers. Both restorers have varied tasks: one of them restores paintings, ceramics, objects made of wood, glass, ivory and textiles, the other one restores books and printed or handwritten documents. The museum executives ensure the uninterrupted flow of work in the institute, their activity serves as basis for the scientific work. The caretakers of the museums are not only concerned with the protection of the exhibits and keeping order but act at the same time as guides through the exhibition making use of their knowledge of languages and thus they also take part in the popularizing activities of the institute. This administrative organization enables the institute to perform its tasks within its present scope and is in accordance with the varied fields of interest and activity of the staff.