Austrian Museum of Pharmacy and Chemists
The museum documents the history of the chemist's shop both as a 'pharmacy for the man in the street' and as a universal supplier of historical medicines – such as dragon's blood, the Spanish fly or mumia vera aegyptiaca. It also displays the original 1908 pharmacy furnishings alongside working tools and historical brand products.
Highlights include an extensive herb collection comprising over 6,000 samples, a homeopathic first aid kit from the 18th century, Tibetan medicinal herb recipes, historical herb books, and four luxury volumes of nature prints with 585 boards of plants, 100 of which were produced for the 1855 World's Fair in Paris. Other exhibits that may surprise you are the first patented contraceptive, an exhibition of cameras from the pioneering days of photography, and many rarities from the collection of the Africanist scholar Dr Emil Holub, including an Egyptian mummy's head and a giant tortoise shell.
LECTURE ON THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY (AT 8 PM)
The principle of the camera obscura was already known in ancient times. The long way to today’s photography is addressed by the Austrian Museum of Pharmacy and Chemists in this talk.
