The newly reconstructed Throop Pharmacy Museum provides an opportunity to visualize the life of a rural pharmacist during the 1800s. The original shelves, counters and wooden drawers that stored the herbs and crude drugs are in place. There is a tin ceiling, wooden floor, period lighting and millwork. Advertising signs adorn the walls, showglobes are featured in the windows and spittoons are located at each end of the main counter. Balances, mortars and pestles, pill machines, grinders for crude drugs, prescription books and cork presses are displayed on the counters. These artifacts are a few of the tools a pharmacist would use to compound medications in the 1800s. The Museum's extensive collection of apothecary bottles and jars are grouped on the shelves by era: Paper labeled bottles circa 1800 Glass labeled bottle circa 1860 Herbal preparations circa 1860 Patent Medicines circa 1800 Homeopathic Medicines circa 1880 The Manufacturing Museum is set up to replicate a small mid-19th century laboratory with a tile floor and period lab benches. This room features the tools a pharmacist would use to produce larger quantities of medications that were sold to shops and doctors. These items include large percolators, mortars and pestles, balances, suppository machines, cachet machines and a brass sieve collection. Also on display are several extensive collections of bottles, jars and tins produced by the major drug companies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.