Bressanone Pharmacy Museum

In the historic centre of Bressanone, the upper floor of a pharmacy has been transformed into a museum.

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The pharmaceutical museum in Bressanone is located in the same building as the city pharmacy itself, a building which combines modern architecture, art and pharmacology. Equipment, containers, elixirs, packages and objects, documenting over 400 years of pharmaceutical history can be admired and enjoyed, a learning experience not to be missed!
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In Bressanone, the upper floor of the Peer Pharmacy has been transformed into a museum.
Foto: BS, © Peer
video: Bressanone

At an altitude of 660 m a.s.l, at the confluence of Rienza and the Isarco rivers, there is the charming episcopal town of Bressanone. Together with Georg Kaser, actor and resident of Bressanone, we walked narrow alleys, visited the theatre he brought into being and came to know that the prison of Bressanone featured the highest escape rates of South Tyrol.

The history-charged Peer Pharmacy in the Via Ponte Aquila road in Bressanone (Brixen), in 2002 inaugurated a small but mighty museum, short “PMB”, providing an interesting insight into 400 years of healing arts, herbalism and various delusions. It is called “PharmazieMuseum Brixen” in German and “Museo della Farmacia di Bressanone” in Italian. Not only remedies are exhibited, but also packages, pill or suppository forms and much more. On a surface of 150 sqm, there are also some curiosities, such as the head of an armadillo, a piece of an Egypt mummy as well as gilded pills. By the way, sugared isopods were administered against fever a long time ago…

Present-day products make the exhibition complete. In the four rooms of the Bressanone Pharmacy Museum there is also a library with works of different centuries, moreover you get an insight into a pharmacy laboratory and you get to know the appliances of a pharmacist. Up to the 19th century actually, almost all medication was produced in the own laboratory.

Also temporary exhibitions take place, e.g. “Poisonous plants - beautiful, but dangerous”, “The herbarium of 1653″ or “Glass - artwork and pharmacy”. Today the Pharmacy Museum Bressanone is administered by the volunteer association “recipe!”. And how to reach it? The museum is housed by the Peer Pharmacy in the town centre, 5 minutes away there’s the Stufels parking garage (subject to charge). A bus stop can be found at the nearby Aquila Bridge (Ponte Aquila).

Opening hours: all-the-year
Advent period 2018:
Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 2 pm to 6 pm
Saturdays from 11 am to 4 pm
Advent Sundays and Dec 8 (bank holiday) from 11 am to 4 pm
Jan 1 - June 30, 2019:
Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 2 pm to 6 pm
Saturdays from 11 am to 4 pm
July 1 - Aug 31, 2019:
from Monday to Friday from 2 pm to 6 pm
Saturdays from 11 am to 4 pm
Sept 1 - Nov 29, 2019:
Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 2 pm to 6 pm
Saturdays from 11 am to 4 pm

Admission:
3.50 Euros (adults), free for kids under 10 years
2.50 Euros (schoolchildren from 10 to 18 years, students, seniors over 60)
family ticket available
free with the BrixenCard, Museumcard or museumobil Card

Further information:
phone: +39 0472 209112, contact@pharmaziemuseum.it

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