"Who invented it?" at the Pharmaceutical Museum Cottbus: Experience the history of science
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When pharmacies become workshops of knowledge
The special exhibition "Who invented it? Maybe a pharmacist!" at the Brandenburg Pharmaceutical Museum Cottbus leads into a surprising history of scientific and technical innovations. Over three centuries, the presentation shows how the pharmacist's spirit of research, precise observation, and experimental practice produced developments that still shape our daily lives today.
Discoveries from the pharmacy laboratory
At the center are examples from the history of medicine, technology, and daily life: the production of beet sugar, the development of soda water, the isolation of morphine, early gas lighting systems, UHU glue, and Chlorodont toothpaste. The exhibition connects the history of pharmacy with the history of science and makes visible how closely laboratory work, craftsmanship, and societal progress were intertwined.
Historical spaces as an aesthetic experience
The Brandenburg Pharmaceutical Museum is located in the former Löwen Pharmacy in the Cottbus Altmarkt. The dispensary, herb chamber, poison chamber, and galenic laboratory convey the working world of a pharmacy around 1850. Wood, glass, ceramics, historical vessels, and laboratory equipment create a dense exhibition atmosphere where workshop contemplation and cultural education come together immediately.
History of science in immediate proximity to the object
The curation focuses not only on individual inventions but also on the way of thinking behind them: curiosity as a starting point, observation as a method, and a joy for experimentation as the engine of progress. This creates an educational art experience of a special kind, connecting historical objects, spaces, and narratives into an illustrative cultural history of innovation.
Visit and tour
The special exhibition can be visited during the regular opening hours of the museum. A detailed guided tour of the special exhibition must be arranged by phone with the pharmacy museum in advance; it will only be considered in a shorter form during the normal museum tour. The regular guided tour times are Tuesday to Friday at 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM and on weekends and public holidays at 2:00 PM and 3:00 PM.
Conclusion: Experience the spirit of research in the historic pharmacy building
Visitors can expect an atmospheric exhibition between pharmacy, technology, daily culture, and science. Those who want to understand how impulses for modern living environments arose from pharmacy laboratories will experience a precisely curated contemplation of work with sensual spatial effects here. A visit to the Brandenburg Pharmaceutical Museum enriches cultural education and opens new perspectives on the history of invention.
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