Description of the attraction
The pharmacy-museum of the city of Lutsk is located in the historical and cultural reserve "Old Lutsk" on the Market Square on Drahomanova Street, 11.
The building of the old Lutsk pharmacy was built at the turn of the XVIII-XIX centuries. the Zlotsky family. In 1845 it was damaged by fire. After some time, the chemical analyst Adam and his brother P. Zlotsky renovated the building and placed a pharmacy in it. In the ground part of the pharmacy there was a trading floor, the owner's office and living quarters, and in the basements there was a laboratory and a storage of medicines. The pharmacy had old books with prescriptions for medicines, as well as equipment for making it in the laboratory.
In the first half of the twentieth century. the Lutsk pharmacy produced about 50 types of ointments, 15 syrups and 25 tinctures. For their manufacture, more than 200 types of medicinal plants were used.
In 1966, some of the items from the pharmacy were transported to the Lviv pharmacies-museums. The pharmacy of the city of Lutsk received the status of a museum a little later.
The building itself is a one-storey house with two-storey basements with cylindrical vaults. The entrance to the house is decorated with wrought iron elements, lanterns and bars on the windows, which have frames. The entire building is framed along the perimeter with eaves of a complex profile. The gable roof is covered with red metal tiles.
The museum exposition of the pharmacy is located in two ground rooms - the director's office and the trading floor, in which the old interior has been preserved. The exposition of the museum includes old recipes, documents, textbooks and pharmacy utensils of the XV-XVII centuries, as well as "A manual for the preparation of pharmacists" (1875), "Herbalist of medicinal plants" (1883), "Polish Pharmacopoeia" (1938). In the director's office there is an old pharmaceutical inventory: measuring cylinders, weights, a machine for making suppositories and sealing bottles, dishes, mortars for ointments and powders, an old telephone, a typewriter, and so on. In addition, a herbarium of medicinal plants has been kept in the pharmacy since 1942.
