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Museum of Poison A small museum about poison in Bergen, Norway.

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⚠️ The plague has returned to RussiaIn Russia’s Irkutsk region, an employee of an anti-plague institute died from the pn...
03/10/2026

⚠️ The plague has returned to Russia

In Russia’s Irkutsk region, an employee of an anti-plague institute died from the pneumonic form of plague. The hospital where she was treated was subsequently placed under quarantine.

Shortly before falling ill, the woman had returned from a work trip to Buryatia, where natural plague hotspots exist. Specialists are now investigating how exactly she became infected.

According to Mash (a Russian news agency), the institute employee may have accidentally broken a test tube containing hazardous material while working in a laboratory. She allegedly told doctors about the incident after being hospitalized💀

03/10/2026

The Double Life of Phenol

In one case: an old bottle of Lysol.
In the other: a charred fragment from a Dragon heat shield.

Same molecule — phenol.

Once it killed germs in hospitals.
It was also a poison that could burn skin and stop a heart.

Now the same chemistry is baked into PICA-X.
At 3,000 °F it deliberately chars and flakes away, carrying the heat with it so the capsule — and the people inside — survive🚀

One molecule.
Two kinds of death.
One sterilizes.
One sacrifices itself.

Never stop lernin'🤓☠️

29/09/2026

Foulston’s Crescent poison bottle was a British registered design, No. 461701, registered on 29 July 1905 by William Lawson Foulston of Hull. Its distinctive crescent-shaped form, ribbed decoration, raised dots and warning inscription “NOT TO BE TAKEN” made it immediately recognisable.
The bottles were produced in several sizes and colours, including green, cobalt blue and rarely in a brown-amber colour. Some examples were also embossed “POISON”.

Unfortunately the fancy design could easily lead to breakages as seen in the last photo... thin glass like this was not very practicle for poison bottles!😵☠️

27/09/2026

This is a British eye medicine containing 1% yellow mercuric oxide — a poisonous mercury compound used as an antiseptic treatment for eye infections, inflammation and other eye complaints👁💀

The name Golden Eye has a long pharmaceutical history. “Golden Ointment” was an old name for yellow-coloured mercurial eye preparations, and the tradition dates back centuries.

This tube was manufactured by Wigglesworth Ltd., Westhoughton, a Lancashire pharmaceutical company, and sold by Butler's Pharmacists & Opticians, 51 Sanvey Gate & Craven Street, Leicester dating it to the 1940's

Concerns about mercury toxicity led to the disappearance of these mercurial preparations, although the Golden Eye name survived in later, non-mercury formulations, but this one carries the warning “POISON — NOT TO BE TAKEN INTERNALLY.”☠️👁👁

This is a tiny pottery Quecksilber - Mercury pot - only 30mm tall. It contained 250 g, chemically pure, to D.A.B. VI spe...
24/09/2026

This is a tiny pottery Quecksilber - Mercury pot - only 30mm tall.

It contained 250 g, chemically pure, to D.A.B. VI specifications, the German Pharmacopoeia VI specs. The D.A.B. VI dates from 1926, making this bottle likely around 90–100 years old, probably from the late 1920s–1930s.

Mercury was still an accepted pharmaceutical substance despite its toxicity... at this time💀🇩🇪

19/09/2026

And now I have a vintage Swedish household insecticide sprayer from roughly 1945–1960s made by Klärre & Co A.B. in Stockholm - loving that green glass💚🇸🇪

The poison DDT was sold for protection against moths, flies, wasps, mosquitoes, horseflies, and ants🐜🕷🪳🦟🪰

DDT was widely used then as a “miracle” pesticide but was later banned in Sweden and many other countries in the early 1970s due to environmental harm - it wasn't as safe for humans and their pets as the producers first claimed!💀☠️

This tiny bottle is a German topical wart remover — meaning a preparation applied directly to the skin or wart, rather t...
17/09/2026

This tiny bottle is a German topical wart remover — meaning a preparation applied directly to the skin or wart, rather than taken by mouth💀

The bottle and matching box has a skull-and-crossbones, showing that the preparation was poisonous. Also, that it should be applied 1–2 times a day

Historical wart removers could contain strong, caustic chemicals capable of destroying wart tissue ☠️

15/09/2026

Datura, also known as thornapple or jimsonweed, contains powerful tropane alkaloids including atropine, scopolamine and hyoscyamine.

These can cause dilated pupils, dry mouth, rapid heartbeat, confusion and delirium — and serious poisoning can be fatal💀

Yet one of its poisons, atropine, is also an important modern medicine, used in controlled doses for certain heart problems and to dilate the pupils during eye examinations.

☠️ The dose makes the poison☠️

There are worse places to have a museum😉☠️
14/09/2026

There are worse places to have a museum😉☠️

I have the most interesting and interested guests from all around the world, so lucky am I 🤗☠️
14/09/2026

I have the most interesting and interested guests from all around the world, so lucky am I 🤗☠️

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Jacobsfjorden 6
Bergen
5003

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Mandag 18:00 - 21:00
Tirsdag 06:00 - 21:00
Onsdag 18:00 - 21:00
Torsdag 18:00 - 21:00
Fredag 18:00 - 21:00
Lørdag 11:00 - 21:00
Søndag 00:00 - 18:00

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