Very interesting place combining working pharmacy and museum with many historic items, showing how the pharmacy and medication evolved over the centuries.
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Town Hall Pharmacy
#3 of 183 Shopping in Tallinn
Raekoja plats 11, Tallinn 10146, Estonia
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All reviews small museum worth a visit the main square old building medicine oldest europe cures toads dispensary instruments history town medicinal hundreds
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Fouregas
United States
954466
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That honor of the oldest still-operating goes to Santa Maria Novella Pharmacy (since 1221) in Florence, Italy.
Anyway this old Pharmacy (Raeapteek, since early 15th century) is one of the main attractions in Town Square, Tallin, and it's free admittance. That also made it very crowded.
Not so sure if they are filling much prescriptions or selling much usual pharmacy/apothecary stuff now. From what I can tell mostly curious tourists walking through in a line admiring and taking photos of all the antique stuff on displays.
Worth maybe less than half hour tour, not counting the wait to get inside.
Date of experience: September 2019
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Hawk470
Baltimore, Maryland
572369
Tucked into one corner of Old Town Tallinn’s lovely and atmospheric main square you will find an old building like many of the others, but with an entrance plaque that for me makes all the difference in the world.
This is a pharmacy. Still working. Still filling prescriptions. Now using computers and electronic payments. But this apothecary has been filling prescriptions on this site since 1422! And for 330 of those years, from 1583 to 1913, the same family filled those prescriptions. A family business for 330 hundred years. From the Hungarian-born Johann Burchardt through his namesakes Johann II to Johann X. Imagine that!
And now imagine the thousands of people who had their prescriptions filled here – even before there was such a thing as prescriptions. Imagine how they dressed, the languages they spoke, and the parcels they carried. Imagine the wide range of illnesses and the remedies they procured here through the centuries. And then notice the pharmacists still at work today in this location, filling prescriptions, tracking them on computer, and having patrons pay by credit card.
The accompanying small museum contains historic pharmacy tools – scales, microscopes, a tincture and oil press, some dried toads and other creatures, and more -- plus a few historical photos. Admission is free. You can peruse it all in half an hour, but don’t rush. Take a moment to breathe in the history.
Truly a must see. More for what it is, than for any particular thing about it. But a must see nonetheless.
Date of experience: September 2019
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sojournicle
Brisbane, Australia
5749
A small historic pharmacy still in operation. There is a mini museum of artefacts & descriptions of old remedies. Worth a visit while in Old Town.
Date of experience: December 2019
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Tufftey
Helsinki, Finland
6238
The Pharmacy is located on one of the corners of the Raekoja market square. You enter into a fully working Pharmacy first, although already rather old fashioned after all the place has been going since 1422. Continue on past the counter and you find yourself in a room full of museum artefacts. Cabinets of various jars of all sizes containing all kinds of potions, pestals and mortars of differing sizes from the tiny to the massive. The most interesting cabinet had such things as horses hooves, hedgehogs, a Mummified human hand, frogs, beetles etc in jars of preservation fluid. Also a cure for "love sickness" which I am glad to say is nothing more than an almond covered with marzipan according to a guide. This pharmacy would not take more than 20 to 30 minutes to visit, but an interesting little stop off.
Date of experience: December 2019
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1777NT
Thirsk, United Kingdom
223127
Interesting place, closed Sundays, quite a lot of historic artefacts and plenty of informative detail of the long established business.
Date of experience: December 2019
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