Pharmacy-Museum, Historical pharmacy building in Lutsk, Ukraine.
The Pharmacy-Museum occupies a one-storey building with two-storey vaulted cellars at Drahomanova Street 11 on Market Square. Its main facade has three windows and a door framed by wrought-iron elements, window grilles and lanterns. Inside, the museum uses the salesroom and the director's office, where 150-year-old birch cabinets hold bottles, mortars and labelled jars beneath busts of Socrates and Hippocrates.
The building itself dates from the late 18th century, not 1845. After a fire in 1845, the chemist Adam Złocki and his brother Petro repaired it and opened a pharmacy there. In the late 19th century, pharmacist Hilary Czerwiński and later his wife Olena prepared medicines for Lesya Ukrainka's family. The pharmacy became a museum later, after some items were moved to Lviv in 1966.
The museum displays how Ukrainian pharmacists prepared and shared traditional remedies with their communities. The arranged rooms show the techniques and tools that were part of everyday pharmaceutical work.
The museum is at Drahomanova Street 11, on the Market Square in the Old Lutsk reserve, in the ground-floor rooms of a building with two-storey vaulted cellars. The exhibition occupies the sales hall and the director's office, and entry is free. The basement rooms are not part of the display.
The building retains original architectural details from the 19th century that have disappeared from many similar towns. These preserved features make it a rare example of how pharmacy buildings looked and functioned in that era across the region.
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