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She says she always knew she would end up in Colorado, even as a young girl, and a spring break ski trip she took to Summit County, Colo., in pharmacy school completely hooked her on the mountains. The two met while Nancy was still practicing as a pharmacist at Aspen Drug, where she worked for 11 years.

While her appreciation for pharmacy history - and how it illuminates the evolution of the field - stretches back to pharmacy school, Nancy’s involvement in collecting didn’t begin until she met her husband. Sonnedecker would be proud! I took all of his history of pharmacy classes on topics like the history of psychoactive drugs, while working toward my pharmacy degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy and found them fascinating.” Building the collection “We have an extensive historic collection of pharmacy and medical items, dating back as far as 200 B.C., but most items are from the 1800s, including many pieces from our local area in the San Juan Mountains,” says Nancy. Curt has been retired since 2012, and Nancy retired just a year and a half ago, and they have both spent decades finding, refurbishing, and curating the special items in their collection of over 3,000 artifacts. Ouray Alchemist is run by Nancy Losinski Haggar (BS ’81), and her husband Curt, both retired pharmacists. In a small mountain town, the doors of a brick building, set off by show globes, escort you to a pharmacy in the early Wild West, complete with tin ceilings and wooden fixtures.ĭesigned to look like a frontier pharmacy from the 1800s, Ouray Alchemist, in Ouray, Colo., is a museum that includes a working soda fountain from 1893, the oldest prescription in Colorado, and over 700 hand-blown glass pharmacy bottles, many with the original drugs inside. In the Ouray Alchemist, Colorado-based Nancy Haggar (BS ‘81) and her husband Curt operate a museum of rare pharmacy artifacts By Katie Ginder-Vogel

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