Musée du Palais Lascaris

This guide to the Musee du Palais Lascaris in Nice starts with a ceramic jar labeled mummy among the pharmacy's real remedies, and traces the apothecary shop's origins in 1738 Besancon under Joseph Baratte, in a building where Victor Hugo was later born. It follows the shop through a century of trade and its closure in 1909, then the string of private owners, including a sewing machine magnate and a hotel builder, who carried its fittings from estate to estate. Look closely at the jars and carved drawers for the old handwritten Latin labels still on them.