Museum - King St. Stephen Museum - Black Eagle Pharmacy

The Black Eagle Pharmacy presents the baroque furniture and pharmacy equippments made by a Jesuit carving workshop in 1758.

The permanent exhibition deals with the history of the pharmacy, too. It was transmitted to the Paulines from the Jesuits, and was in operation right up to 1971. We can learn more about the marvellous carpentry and sculpture works of the famous lay brother called Bernát Baumgartner.

Besides the permanent exhibition a number of temporal exhibitions of a great variety of subjects welcome the visitors. Among those there are the fields of archeology, ethnography and fine arts.

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Permanent exhibitions

Baroque Pharmacy Furniture Made by the Jesuit Carving Workshop in 1758

In the 17th-18th centuries the orders in Hungary had the furniture of their churches and monasteries made by mostly their own joiners and wood-carvers. Bernat Baumgartner (1701-after 1773) was the head of the lay brothers working in the Jesuit workshop and was permanently staying at Székesfehérvár from 1749 to 1760. His name is connected with the planning and carving of the joinery and sculptural works of the altars (1750-1758), the pews (1760) and the furniture of the refectory facing the courtyard (1759), but sorry the latter was missing even in the 18th century. Bernat Baumgartner by his activity at Székesfehérvár is an outstanding master among the wood-carvers of his age.

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