The exhibition presents the interior of a reconstructed pharmacy with its furnishings, pharmaceutical instruments and prescriptions from 1813 to the 1950s that belonged to five generations of a pharmacist family from Limanowa. Models of historical figures faithfully reconstruct the faces and outfits of inhabitants from Limanowa of the early 20th century and documentaries screened on multimedia devices tell the story of the pharmacy in Limanowa. Most interesting exhibits include the brass National cash register of 1910 on the counter, a nineteenth-century Reichert optical microscope, an analytical laboratory scales from the late 19th century, a nineteenth-century brass press for corks shaped like a crocodile, a porcelain container for leeches with the Latin inscription ‘Hirudines’, archival pharmacy prescriptions coming mostly from Krakow pharmacies of the early 20th century and a paraffin lamp given to the owner of the Limanowa pharmacy, Walerian Zubrzycki, by its inventor, Ignacy Łukasiewicz.
The World of Former Pharmacy, Regional Museum of Limanowska Land
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