Museum of Polish Pharmacy

the entrance to the Museum of Pharmacy

Pharmacy Museum
Muzeum Farmacji
ul.Floriańska 25
31-019 Kraków
phone. +48 12 421 92 79

Opened in 1946 , moved to the present location in 1988 now hosts more than 22 thousand of items gathered from many polish pharmacies and monasteries, and also the gifts of the private collectors. The aphotecary jars collection starts from some pottery vessels from Lebanon (around 1000 B.C.) and Roman glass bottles, through medieval majolika vases and jugs, to 19th centuries pharmacy stuff, one of the most interesting items is about 200 years old wooden microscope.

You can visit the interior of the old vault laboratory, with iron stoves, mortars, distillation apparatuses, retorts Woulf bottles and Florentine receivers.

There is also a room that shows ther interior of 19th century pharmacy, and the pharmacists study room dedicated to personal belongings of Ignacy Łukasiewicz, who first in the world obtained kerosene used for lumination.