Pharmacy Museum, Chernivtsi

Not many cities in Ukraine can boast of Pharmacy Museum. Besides the most famous in Lviv and Kiev , the average tourist is unlikely to call any more. And Chernivtsi is that present visitors to the city, particularly on the main street Kobylanska operates a pharmacy museum, which produces and sells the medicine that`s already more than a century.

Pharmacy Museum Collection

Museum staff managed to completely recreate the interior of the pharmacy first half of the 20th century. You can see the original furniture chemist in 1903 that the real value of the museum collection. Overall represented about 90 exhibits used in the manufacture of drugs and their packaging. It will be interesting to examine a special pan, which was preparing activated charcoal, scales, pipettes, flasks, kokrodavy, machines for crushing cocoa - everything you need for pharmaceutical activity in the early 20th century.

The museum is also a collection of pharmaceutical literature, which are painted recipes for preparing medicines, books on medicinal plants. Along the perimeter of the hall is decorated with busts of pharmacy parents - Galen, the Greek patron god Asclepius doctors, Aristotle and Hippocrates. Today it is the only pharmacy in Chernivtsi, where to this day independently prepared dosage forms in order.

History of Pharmacy Museum

Pharmacy opened in 1903, is located in a building on the street Kobylanska, which was built in 1900. Originally it belonged to the family ŠIMONOVIĆ, but since 1930 the property passed to Grossman, who also belonged to the nationalization in 1944. Then, the Soviet Union, it functioned as a municipal pharmacy № 2. the centenary of the founding of the institution city authorities decided to make it a museum that opened in 2003. Works of the museum took over the former chief of pharmacy husband Nicholas Kaverdynskyy. His efforts have been restored old furniture, collected and systematized collection of exhibits. It continues to function to this day, being both a pharmacy and a museum.

How to get to the museum

The museum is located at ul. Kobylanska, 43 in the city center on a pedestrian street.

Hours Chernivtsi Pharmacy Museum: establishment open to the public from 8:30 to 20:00 daily, Sunday - from 9:00 to 17:00.