Attraction

Museum of Pharmacy in Krakow: tickets and opening hours

A Jagiellonian University pharmacy museum that fills every room of a medieval house on Floriańska Street, from the cellars to the attic. An average visit takes an hour and a half, and there is no lift.

Every room of the medieval house at Floriańska 25, from the Gothic cellars to the attic, holds the collections of the Museum of Pharmacy in Krakow. Its Polish name is Muzeum Farmacji Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, and it is a pharmacy museum of the Jagiellonian University that shows how an old pharmacy worked. You visit with a paid ticket, on your own or in a group with a museum guide. The house stands about 150 m in a straight line from St Mary's Basilica. It is not the Eagle Pharmacy in Podgórze, which has its own page.

Address: Floriańska 25, 31-019 Krakow
Opening hours: Tuesday 12:00-18:30; Wednesday to Saturday 9:30-15:00; closed on Mondays and Sundays (as listed in October 2026).
Tickets: 16 zł standard, 10 zł reduced, 35 zł family ticket.
Time needed: an hour and a half on average.
Accessibility: no lift and no other facilities for visitors with disabilities.

Museum of Pharmacy opening hours and tickets

The museum is closed on Mondays and Sundays. On Tuesdays it is open from 12:00 to 18:30. From Wednesday to Saturday it is open from 9:30 to 15:00. Last entry is 45 minutes before closing time.

For individual visitors, a standard ticket costs 16 zł and a reduced ticket costs 10 zł. A family ticket costs 35 zł. It covers no more than two adults with children up to the age of 16. For groups that visit with a guide, a standard ticket costs 22 zł and a reduced ticket costs 14 zł. The museum provides the guide.

The Krakowska Karta Turystyczna, the Krakow tourist card, is not accepted at the museum. VisitMałopolska, the regional tourism portal, lists descriptions in English for the exhibition.

There is no lift in the museum, and there are no other facilities for people with disabilities. People with limited mobility cannot tour the building, but there is a virtual tour of the museum on the wirtualnykraj.pl portal.

Hours and prices change; check the current details on the website of Muzeum Farmacji UJ CM before your visit.

What to see in the Museum of Pharmacy

The permanent exhibition occupies 12 rooms on every level of the house, up to the attic on the third floor. The collections cover the furniture, tools, books and raw materials of old pharmacies.

Pharmacy furniture: furniture in the Baroque, Empire and Biedermeier styles, together with pharmacy vessels from different periods.
Majolica: among the pharmacy vessels is a large collection of majolica from various European manufactories.
Tools of the trade: mortars, presses, filters, capsules for gilding pills, dragée machines and cutters for chopping herbs.
Old remedies: medicinal raw materials of plant, mineral and animal origin. Some are of human origin, for example human fat.
Signs and stained glass: the pharmacies' own emblems, and stained glass on pharmacy themes.
Early printed books: medieval and early modern pharmacy handbooks, official and unofficial pharmacopoeias (books that list medicines), herbals and handwritten pharmacy manuals.
Old Krakow pharmacies: a display with the Polish title "Co zostało z dawnych krakowskich aptek", which means "What remains of the old Krakow pharmacies".
Contemporary paintings: new paintings inspired by the museum's collections.

VisitMałopolska lists among the curiosities poisons, leeches, a unicorn horn, Spanish flies, woodlice and a kołtun polski (plica polonica).

Near the Museum of Pharmacy: Jan Matejko House

Jan Matejko House is about 100 m from the museum in a straight line. The obwarzanek street carts are about 150 m away. The Czartoryski Museum is about 200 m away.