Pharmacy Museum

The unique pharmacy museum in Lviv allows everyone to peek behind the veil of history and learn what the apothecary trade looked like in the old days, and what apothecaries used to prepare medicines. The pharmacy itself was opened by military pharmacist Natorp back in 1735, but even today it is a working pharmacy where medicines are sold and interesting tours are held.

Photo from the website uk.wikipedia.org
The pharmacy museum displays a variety of exhibits that were once used in pharmacy:

• various containers;
• rare remedies;
• apothecary vessels;
• medicine bottles;
• antique prescriptions, etc.

Thanks to the owners’ efforts, the lavish interiors of the rooms have been preserved almost unchanged. Each hall is an opportunity to look at the apothecary trade from a different angle.
Interesting facts:

• In the first exhibition hall, in the cabinets, there are multicolored medicine bottles. They are made of “ruby glass”, a material to which gold is added. Such a container made it possible to keep medicines in a condition suitable for use for a long time.
• The pharmacy sells a unique “iron” wine that has healing properties. It makes it possible to successfully overcome problems with iron deficiency, treat anemia, and maintain the necessary level of iron in the body.
• Until the middle of the 20th century, the museum sold wine that made it possible to cure some types of stomach diseases and reduce iron deficiency. That is why one of the museum’s rooms is a real cellar, where barrels of wine were stored.

Opening hours: daily from 10:00 to 18:00