The pharmacy Museum Photo: Pharmacy Museum

The pharmacy Museum is extant in Grodno the oldest pharmacy in the post-Soviet space. She was discovered in a Jesuit monastery in 1709.

Flew century, changed owners, and the old pharmacy was still there and unchanged. Pharmacists are people neat and careful. In its original form pharmacy reached 1950, when Soviet officials suddenly it decided to close and pay for medical stores. However, even Soviet chemists were very Thrifty people and respectful to the old, so when it was decided to open a Museum of pharmacy, it took a long time to collect interesting exposition – all accurately the image was stored in warehouses. Helped collect rare vintage items and local residents. They brought in a Museum of antique bottles and other medical things.

As Museum exhibits are kept here herbaria collected and artistically decorated by the famous Belarusian writer, a resident of the city of Grodno Eliza Orzeszko. Exhibited also a set of tools with which it was performed the autopsy of the deceased king of the Commonwealth Stefan Batory Foundation.

Here you can clearly see the development of the pharmaceutical business and medicine. The Museum of medical instruments, antique pharmacy bottles, scales, furniture of the eighteenth century.

The amazing thing is that the pharmacy is operating. You can come back and buy the most modern medicines and homeopathic remedies, prepared according to old recipes, medicinal plants, medicines, supplements.

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