Antonina Leśniewska Museum of Pharmacy

This guide to the Antonina Lesniewska Museum of Pharmacy in Warsaw follows the woman it's named for from a bare room outside a Saint Petersburg lecture hall she wasn't allowed into, through the Latin exam she had to fight to sit, to her push to become the first woman in the Russian Empire with a pharmacy master's degree. You'll hear about the all-female pharmacy she ran on Nevsky Prospect, the school she founded, and what she did once Poland regained independence and she came home to Warsaw. The museum recreates the pharmacy she never quite got to open on this street.