In the historic centre of Bressanone, the upper floor of a pharmacy has been transformed into a museum
Image gallery: Bressanone Pharmacy Museum
The history-charged Peer Pharmacy in the Via Ponte Aquila road in the town of Bressanone, 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. A bus stop can be found at the nearby Aquila Bridge. Open all year round!
Contact info
- Via Ponte Aquila / Adlerbrückengase 4 - 39042 - Bressanone / Brixen
- +39 0472 209112
- mail@pharmaziemuseum.it
Opening times
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Admission
€ 5.00 adults
€ 4.00 children and young people (10-18 years)
€ 4.00 seniors 65+
€ 4.00 students
€ 4.00 groups (more than 10 persons)
€ 12.00 family ticket
free for children under 10 years
free with the BressanoneCard
free with the Museumscard and museumobil Card
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groups with guided tour:
€ 80.00 flat rate (groups up to 10 persons)
€ 8.00 per person (groups of 10 and more persons)
€ 5.00 per person (high school classes)
€ 4.00 per person (middle school classes)
More information
Guided tours and educational offers are offered on request also outside the opening hours: mail@pharmaziemuseum.it. The audio guide HEARONYMUS can be downloaded for free.
The Bressanone Pharmacy Museum stays open on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday all year round, Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Friday rest days, expanded opening hours during the Advent and Christmas period and in the high summer months of July and August.