Mauthausen Pharmacy Museum


- All weather
- Suitable for groups
The Pharmacy Museum is a treasure trove of information, medicines, books, and equipment dating back to the late 1800s.
Architecture - Museum - Craft
Housed on the first floor of Pragstein Castle, the Museum is intended to preserve the history of pharmacy and to provide the public with an opportunity to learn more about the profession of pharmacy, which is as old as time itself.
The first room of the Museum contains a collection of antique pharmacy books, pharmacopoeias, prescription files, and daily journals from the late 18th to the early 20th century.
Three more rooms show the dispensatory in a 19th century compounding drugstore: The museum showcases the work area and storage for herbals and various pharmaceuticals that pharmacists used in their compounding practice. Compounding formulas and glass medicine bottles that contained plant extracts and inorganic ingredients that would be used to compound a patient’s prescription would normally be found in any pharmacy of that time.
In addition, there is a rich collection of tools and equipment, such as microscopes, scales, measuring instruments as well as store fixtures, and artifacts, including several large drug store fixtures and fittings.
Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays: 10:00am - 12:00noon and 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays: 10:00am - 12:00noon
Closed on Mondays
Guided Tours: Saturdays 4:30pm (May through October)
Other times available by prior arrangement
- by arrangement
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- holiday
- Parking space: 50
- Parking area for disabled: 5
- Bus parking space: 5
- Toilet facility
- Shop
- Guided tour
- Courses
- Children
- Groups
- All weather
- Suitable for groups
- Suitable for schools
- Suitable for teenagers
- Suitable for seniors
- Suitable for single travelers
- Suitable for friends
- Suitable for couples
- Suitable for children
- Spring
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter
Please get in touch for more information.
- ground level accessible
Contact
Mauthausen Pharmacy Museum Schlossgasse 1
4310 Mauthausen
Phone +43 7238 29363
Fax machine +43 7238 29363
E-Mailpost@heimatverein-mauthausen.org
Webwww.apothekenmuseum.at
Webwww.schlossmuseen-mauthausen.org
https://www.schlossmuseen-mauthausen.org
Contact person
Mr Mag. Hubert Voigt
Phone +43 7238 29363
Legal contact information
Heimat- u. Museumsverein Schloss Pragstein MauthausenKarl-Heinz Sigl
Schlossgasse 1
AT-4310 Mauthausen
apothekenmuseum@mauthausen.at
https://www.apothekenmuseum.at
Vertretungsverhältnisse:
Obmann Karl-Heinz Sigl, Stv. f.
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