Muzeum Farmacji Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

[edytuj] Pharmacy Museum of Jagiellonian University

part of the museum part of the museum Date established 1946 Location Poland Krakow Scope of collections Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology Director dr hab. Zbigniew Bela Address ul. Florian 25 31-019 Krakow

Pharmacy Museum, Jagiellonian University Medical College - founded in 1946 in Cracow, the museum collection on display on the history of pharmacy and pharmaceutical technology.

The founder and first director of the museum was Dr. Stanislaw Pron, legal counsel and administrative director of the Regional Chamber of Pharmacists in Krakow. Until the late 80s Museum housed in the building at 3 ul. Basztowa. It was then transferred to the newly renovated building at ul. St. Florian's, where it is today.

The museum occupies all five floors of the building including the basement and the attic, in a manner appropriate to the historical use of such premises in as an apothecary.

On the first floor is a room dedicated to Ignatius Łukasiewiczowi - a pharmacist, a pioneer in the field of crude oil and the inventor of the kerosene lamp.

The room on the second floor of the exhibition is devoted to Tadeusz Pankiewicz, who ran during the occupation in the ghetto pharmacy "Under the Eagle" and received the medal "Righteous Among the Nations" .

Among the various exhibits deserving special attention in the field of pharmaceutical technology, are weights of less than one gram as patented by Marian Zahradnik the shape of which indicates their importance. Such weights adopted in the countries of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later across Europe, and with minor modifications are used to today. Another interesting invention is an electrical device to sterilize prescriptions. It was to protect the pharmacist from infection with germs transferred on the prescription.

Muzeum Farmacji Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego is a museum in Kraków, Poland. It was established in 1946.