What is the website for Deutsches Apotheken-Museum?

Visit Deutsches Apotheken-Museum online at https://www.schloss-heidelberg.de.

What is Deutsches Apotheken-Museum?

The museum follows developments from the days of druids, alchemy, witch doctors and superstition all the way to the emergence of the scientific standards we are familiar with today.

Deutsches Apotheken-Museum

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Interior of a traditional apothecary room with wooden counters, shelves and a hanging crocodile at the German Pharmacy Museum in Heidelberg, Germany.

The German Pharmacy Museum (deutsches-apotheken-museum.de), off the Schlosshof at Schloss Heidelberg, illustrates the history of Western pharmacology, in which Germany played a central role. Exhibits include pharmacies from the early 1700s and the Napoleonic era. Kids can use a mortar and a pestle to blend their own herbal tea. Most signs are in English.