Museum of Pharmacy
The Museum of Pharmacy on Floriańska Street, Kraków, traces how medicine was practiced through technology—an approach shaped by its founding in 1946. It was established by Stanisław Proń, a legal counsel and administrative director of the Regional Chamber of Pharmacists in Kraków, and it grew into a major institution of the Jagiellonian University Medical College’s pharmacy history. For decades the collection lived in a different location—until the late 1980s, it was housed in the building at 3 ul. Basztowa. After that, it moved to a newly renovated building on ul. St. Florian’s, where it remains, occupying all five floors, from basement to attic, arranged like an apothecary. Two exhibition rooms anchor the museum’s story. One is dedicated to Ignacy Łukasiewicz, a pioneer of crude oil and inventor of the modern kerosene lamp. …
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