Pharmacy Museum, Bad Münstereifel

The pharmacy museum in Bad Münstereifel displays materials from the 19th and 20th centuries in a functioning pharmacy, for example, an officina, laboratory, materials chamber, herb cabinet, herb garden, etc. The shelves date back to 1806. The shelves date back to 1806. During special tours, visitors can slip into the role of a pharmacist and twist pills and pour suppositories themselves.

The museum is located in the house that housed the Swan Pharmacy from 1806 to 1994; it was acquired in 1995 by the Förderkreis für Denkmalpflege in der Stadt Bad Münstereifel e. V. and subsequently renovated and expanded.

The rococo statues in the garden area are works of the sculptor Adam Ferdinand Dietz and come from the park of Gut Giersberg.

Since 2007, the Pharmacy Museum has housed as a loan a small collection of paintings by painters who worked in Münstereifel during the time of the poet Jakob Kneip. Jakob Kneip had "sheltered" in 1941 in the Eifel village of Pesch and found here in Ina Bresgen, the owner of the Schwanenapotheke, a valuable conversation partner, critical listener and "lector". The place of these encounters was today's Pharmacy Museum. Through Kneip, his Düsseldorf artist friend Otto Pankok, who was classified as a degenerate painter from 1936 on, among other things, because of his gypsy motifs and friendship with gypsies and Jews, also came to Pesch.