Museum of Industrial Pharmacy — Attraction in Limassol Municipality

My son asked me to write a review about the museum, because the children cannot leave a review on the map.

"Regrettably, I must give this museum 1 star. Perhaps it should be renamed to "Please Don't Touch.""

From me:

This new, small museum on Cyprus is a welcome addition, offering visitors a short yet engaging experience, lasting up to an hour. However, the format leaves much to be desired.

The exhibits display various machines from the pharmaceutical industry. Undoubtedly, these machines might be fascinating, but it's challenging to understand their significance or operation. Everything remains static, making it hard to comprehend their functionality. Security personnel constantly follow children around, repeatedly warning, "Don't touch." This phrase is plastered everywhere. When the children decided to touch the only item labelled as touchable, a guard rushed over to stop them. Even he seemed surprised when shown the signage permitting interaction with that particular exhibit. On a day when everyone is exploring the town, it's disheartening to see an empty museum, especially when the children who venture in are eager to leave to avoid the overzealous security. It's a sorrowful sight.

In conclusion, this could be an excellent museum if the exhibition concept were revisited. It wouldn't take much: visually or animatedly demonstrate how each machine works. Remove the ubiquitous "Please Don't Touch" signs. Surely industrial machines, built to withstand high pressures and aggressive environments, can handle a child's touch. Ideally, make a few buttons and switches on these machines interactive. The children's delight would...

We happened upon the Takis Pattichis Museum by chance when walking around the town. We hadn’t actually made any plans to visit anything in particular but were very happy to find this museum. We were met by a most welcoming lady who talked to us about some of the aspects of the machinery and plant exhibited and spoke to us about how Mr. Pattichis was such a pioneer in the area of production and supply of pharmaceuticals. It seems that from humble beginnings with packaging of medicines done in an open room, huge advancements were made to ensure clean and consistent weighing and packing of medicines including distribution were made and you can see real examples of the plant and packing equipment in the museum. As the lady was so welcoming and kind and explained to us about what all the plant and machinery did, we were very interested and spent half an hour, or more, in the museum and we are very thankful to her for being so kind and to the curators of the museum for presenting such a wonderful venue for us to visit. Thank you, Lyndon & Peter...

There's something special about seeing up close all the details of an industrial process. Smart people have spent their entire careers thinking about how to make, in this case, pharmaceuticals, and on display here you can see the crystallized manifestation of that in the form of machinery, along with explanations of the manufacturing process. It's easy to take the modern world for granted, but everything rests on the shoulders of those who work hard to sweat the small details—down to the machine that dusts off the excess powder from pills.

This is a museum of technology. Not science, not abstractions, but the nitty-gritty of how industry actually gets stuff done, makes stuff, gets products into our hands, makes the world turn. In this case, it's medicine—but beyond that, it lays bare how behind every product you've ever used there has been a vast investment of brainpower, time, effort, money, and other resources into getting everything exactly right. I find this fascinating—and if it seems like you would too, I very much...