Excursion to the Ancient Pharmacy Museum

As a part of the Road to Life for Every Child program and the Good Cause Every Day! promo event the Konstantin Kondakov Charity Foundation continues to organize series of informative tours of the home city for children from multi-child families and family-type orphanages. In order to increase knowledge about the ancient Kiev for the kids from Lugovskih, Kostenko and Plohih families an unusual journey through the ancient Kievan pharmacy was organized. The excursion began in one of the historic districts of Kiev at the Podol. Here the first Kiev pharmacy was.

The metropolitan pharmacy looked like a large room furnished with furniture of the XIX century. An old cash register and a lot of fancy jars on the shelves attracted the children’s attention.

Museum staff showed the guys the office of a pharmacist. In the old days a pharmacist was also a doctor, so he did not only prepare medicines, but also communicated with patients. The children also saw a basement laboratory of an alchemist with a large high table and diverse apothecary utensils, an old cell where people were treated with prayer and a wise woman hut full of dried herbs. Totally families visited the 12 halls with a unique history and old pharmacy exhibits.

Further there was an interactive lesson on potion making, the children did not only learn the history of herbal tea and learn all the details of its preparation, but they also have experienced the power of this miracle drink by themselves!

Visit to the pharmacy museum showed the children from the multi-child Lugovskie, Kostenko and Plohih families the integral part of everyday Kiev life, also everybody learned about the development of medicine in our country. We should say that the children spent the great day and expanded their horizons. For this purpose with love in our hearts we are building a new world!