Grodno. The pharmacy museum.

The city of Grodno is famous for its monuments and museums. One of the most unusual museums in the city is the pharmacy museum. We have been used to going to pharmacies since childhood and it seems to us that we know everything about our medicines and their manufacture, but if you visit the pharmacy museum in Grodno, you will be surprised at how interesting and delicate this process is. And it will be even more interesting to find out how medicines were produced in our country hundreds of years ago.

The pharmacy was built in the very center of Grodno near the Jesuit Church of Francis Xavier on the former Shopping Square. The pharmacy is located in a building that was erected in 1709 by the Catholic Jesuit Order. The Jesuits built a church, a Collegium and outbuildings in the city center – it turned out to be a whole block that has survived to our time. The pharmacy worked in this room until the middle of the 20th century. Then there was a furniture salon. And since 1996, a pharmacy has been opened here again, when the building was rented by the Grodno pharmaceutical company Biotest.

Now the pharmacy itself is working here, and a pharmacy museum is attached to it.

The pharmacy consists of several parts:

• herbal department, where you can buy medicines, tinctures, tea drinks and cosmetics from medicinal plants;
• the sales department, which has more than 5 thousand medicines on sale;
• an exposition where you can see ancient apothecary dishes, medical instruments, books and herbariums by the writer Aloisa Ozheshko.

 Entrance to the museum is paid, but not expensive at all.