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Patikamúzeum
Museum

Patikamúzeum

📍 Fő tér 2, Sopron, 9400

In Patikamúzeum, the “Arany Egyszarvú” pharmacy museum was housed in the former *“Apotéka az Arany Egyszarvúhoz”* apothecary building in Kőszeg, restored to reflect the building’s late–18th-century condition. Its permanent exhibition drew from surviving memories of Vas County’s 17th to 19th-century civil and monastic pharmacies. The museum’s most valuable ensemble was the furniture made for the old Jesuit pharmacy in Kőszeg between 1737 and 1743, alongside written Jesuit pharmacy records and the building’s own history. The first room presented the county’s oldest pharmacy-history documents, while the larger hall displayed tools of pharmaceutical practice—measuring and testing instruments, earlier medical materials, and how pharmacy containers changed shape from the 17th to the 20th century. The final room focused on dispensing equipment, including a unique attic space for drying medicinal plants. …

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