Museum Centre of Turku, Pharmacy Museum and The Qwensel House
Qwensel House is Turku´s oldest bourgeois residence, built around the turn of the 17th century. The rococo and Gustavian styled rooms display some of the lifestyle of the upper classes. The making of drugs in earlier times presented in the permanent exhibition as well as the later development of the pharmacy as an institution. A collection of pharmacist Åke Lydman. The Museum is open 2.5.-15.9. and 30.11.-31.12.
Läntinen Rantakatu 13, 20100 Turku
TMK/Maarit Lassila
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