Description of the attraction
The Pharmacy Museum is a museum founded in 1946 at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The collection of the museum tells about the history of pharmaceutical technology.
The organizer and the first director of the museum was Stanislaw Pron, who at that time held the position of legal adviser and administrative director of the district chamber of pharmacists in Krakow. Until the end of the 80s, the museum was located in a residential building, however, the conditions for a museum there were not ideal. After some time, the museum moved to a bright, recently renovated apartment building on Floriana Street, where it is located today. The museum occupies all five floors of the building, including the basement and the attic. The basement contains materials that need certain storage conditions, for example, there is a drying of medicinal plants. Also, old wine barrels are kept in the basement, in which the pharmacists kept special medicinal wine. The museum also has a book of wine recipes from the 16th century.
On the ground floor there is a room dedicated to Ignatius Lukasevich, the famous pharmacist and inventor of the kerosene lamp.
Among the various exhibits, Polish inventions in the field of pharmaceutical technology deserve special attention. For example, a scale invented by Marian Zahradnik, which can weigh less than one gram of a drug. Another interesting invention is an electric device for sterilizing recipes. It was used to protect pharmacists from prescription germs.
