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Museum of Pharmacy of Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum

Local name: Muzeum Farmacji Collegium Medicum UJ

The Museum of Pharmacy of Collegium Medicum is located in the monumental tenement house on Floriańska Street in Kraków. It occupies the entire building and presents the history of pharmacy since the Middle Ages to modern times. The museum consists of halls dedicated to Ignacy Łukasiewicz, the inventor of the first kerosene lamp, and Tadeusz Pankiewicz who run Kraków's drugstore "Pod Orłem".

Thanks to the amount of space the tenement house provides, it was possible to re-create the arrangement of the old pharmacy. The cellars consist of storages of products which spoil easily, while pharmacy rooms are situated in the upper part. Herb dryer room was set up in the attic. The museum has very rich collections containing old pharmacy tools, handbooks with instructions for making drugs, graphics and photographs showing the work of pharmacists.

The museum's collection also includes the complete equipment of the old pharmacy from Sanok which was run by Marian Kawski until the 1960s. There are also inventions related to pharmacy technics which were patented by Marian Zahradnik at the end of the 19th century.

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    Floriańska 25 Krakow , Poland