Pharmacy Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj

Hintz House in Cluj

Where, when, how much?

Pharmacy Museum in Cluj-Napoca is located at 28 Unirii Square and can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm, with the last admission possible 30 minutes before closing time. The full ticket costs RON 30 and there are also family and reduced-price tickets. The Pharmacy History Collection and the Medical Apparatus Collection are on display.

About the Pharmacy Museum

Pharmacy Museum belongs to the National Museum of the History of Transylvania and is housed in the Hintz House. Here it functioned between 1750-1949 Hintz Pharmacy. The house preserves 18th century pharmaceutical decorations, unique in Romania.The building preserves the old division of traditional pharmacies. Thus we discover the officina, the materialis room, the laboratory, the cellar, the pharmacist's office, the attic where medicinal plants were dried. The museum was inaugurated in 1954. György (I) Hintz took over the pharmacy in 1863 from his mother, Mathilde Mauksch. György Hintz I was the first Transylvanian to obtain a doctorate in pharmacology. He was followed by György (II) Hintz and György (III) Hintz. The pharmacy was named "Dr. György Hintz".

1. Ground floor

There are 3 rooms on the ground floor of the Hintz House. In the materialis room were stored the raw materials used in the preparation of medicines. In the officina the medicines were sold. The room also attracts by its baroque painting. The owners worked in the pharmacist's office and there is a specialized library. The rooms exhibit pharmaceutical vessels, water tests, microscopic samples, homeopathic kits, pharmaceutical accessories and paintings.

camera materialis

portrait of Dr. Hintz

pharmaceutical vessels

Baroque decorations

pharmaceutical scales

pharmacist's office

pharmaceutical containers

Pharmacy Museum

2. Pivința

Raw materials or sensitive pharmaceuticals were stored in the basement. Here are the multimedia room, the laboratory, the museum education room, the anatomical amphitheater and the collection of medical apparatus. A movie is playing in the multimedia room, telling the story of the Hintz house and family. Medicines were prepared in the laboratory. In the museum education room medicinal soaps are prepared, essential oils and perfumes are experimented with. There are containers, pharmaceutical paraphernalia, coins, medical apparatus and we learn about the hospitals in Cluj.

 

mashing accessories

laboratory

coins

Dr. George Hintz

medical devices

radiology

electrophysiotherapy

Pharmacy Museum

Conclusion

Pharmacy Museum takes you through the history of pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca, which is largely intertwined with that of Dr. Hintz's family. Visit this interesting museum.

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