Pharmácia Popular, Heritage pharmacy museum in Bananal, Brazil.

Pharmácia Popular is a pharmacy building in Bananal whose facade still bears the old spelling with PH. The 19th-century neoclassical furniture, including Riga pine counters and shelves, was sold after 2011; what remains is the French tiled floor, European-style wooden ceiling lining, and identical replicas of the old grilles and doors.

Founded in 1830 as Pharmácia Imperial by the Frenchman Tourin Domingos Mosnier, it was sold in 1860 to Colonel Valeriano José da Costa and renamed Pharmácia Popular in December 1889, after the end of the Brazilian monarchy. Colonel Graça bought it in 1918; his son Ernani took over in 1922, and Plínio Graça ran it from 1956 until his death on 30 June 2011. The Graça family managed it for 89 years, the last three decades also as a museum.

The pharmacy displays how remedies and medical practices looked in the 19th century and what role they played in the town's daily life. Visitors see bottles, jars, and handwritten labels that show how people then took care of their health.

The pharmacy stands in the centre of Bananal, in the interior of São Paulo state, and reopened in 2014 after several years of works, now operating as a modern pharmacy rather than a museum. Visitors should plan around its commercial opening hours and note that the 19th-century furniture was sold after 2011, so the original fittings are no longer on show.

The building was founded as a pharmacy and operated continuously for more than a century and a half, run from the founder through his descendants. This long operational history under the same family makes it a rare example of business continuity in Brazil.