About
The Pharmacy Under the Eagle Museum, known in Polish as Muzeum Farmacja pod Orłem, is a small museum in the Kazimierz district of Kraków, at Bohaterów Getta 18. It occupies the premises of a pharmacy that, during the Second World War, was the only one operating inside the Jewish ghetto.
What you will see
The museum documents the life of that pharmacy and the people who worked in it under the occupation. Much of the original interior has been preserved, along with the pharmacy equipment used at the time, so the rooms give a direct sense of how the space looked and functioned during those years.
What kind of visit it makes
Because the museum is small, a visit is compact and focused rather than sprawling. It suits visitors who are interested in the history of the Kraków ghetto, in wartime medicine, or in the everyday realities of life under occupation. It is also a quiet stop for anyone who wants to look closely at a single place and its story.
- Location: Bohaterów Getta 18, 30-547 Kraków, in the Kazimierz district
- Type: a small museum set in a preserved historic pharmacy interior
- Contact: +48 12 656 56 25
The area around it
The museum sits in Kazimierz, the historic former Jewish quarter of Kraków, which is easy to combine with a walk through its streets, courtyards and other sites connected to the city's Jewish heritage. Planning a visit around the neighbourhood lets you place the pharmacy within the wider history of the district.
