Pharmacy Museum description and photo - Crimea: Evpatoria (Topic)

Pharmacy Museum description and photos - Crimea: Evpatoria. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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Walking through the old quarters of Yevpatoria, you can see many unique attractions included in the excursion route "Little Jerusalem", which also includes the famous Pharmacy Museum.

Pharmacy Museum is located in an old building on Karaeva Street, 4. It was built in 1897 by the pharmacist Roffe on the site of the oldest Crimean pharmacy, founded in 1823, and has remained unchanged to this day. Today it is a functioning city pharmacy in Evpatoria №43, the museum exposition of which can be viewed at any time when the pharmacy is open.

The Evpatoria Pharmacy Museum hospitably opened its doors to visitors in 2004. Its exposition is represented by many interesting exhibits: antique pharmacy dishes and furniture, manual and mechanical equipment, with the use of which medicines were made. Of particular interest are a press for squeezing out corks, pill machines, a birch bark rod for storing henna. Pharmacy shelves are lined with antique dishes, various original colorful bottles, bronze and porcelain mortars. Each item had its own specific purpose. A bottle with dental drops made 100 years ago is still stored here, while the product has not changed either in appearance or in its chemical composition.

Here is also the original agreement on the acquisition of this pharmacy by Roffe's pharmacist, price lists of various drugs , old samples of drug advertising and much more.

By visiting a pharmacy, any visitor will find himself in the atmosphere of the past and can immerse himself in the spirit of those times.

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