Museum of Poison

04/11/2026

This stunning chemists bottle from around 1890-1910 is made of uranium glass. The stopper is acid-etched for a tight seal without needing cork. The base has a polished pontil mark.
A pontil (or punty) is a metal rod used in traditional glassblowing to hold or shape molten glass. After the glass is blown and shaped, the pontil is attached to the base of the piece to allow the glassblower to work on the top or neck. When the piece is finished and detached from the pontil, it often leaves a mark called a "pontil mark" or "pontil scar," which can help identify hand-blown glass.
Uranium glass is a decorative glass containing uranium oxide.
Popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it is mildly radioactive but safe to handle.
The label, stating "CHLOROFORM" is hand painted in enamel. Chloroform is a sweet-smelling liquid once used as an anesthetic but abandoned due to its toxicity and safer alternatives 🇬🇧

28/10/2026

Still collecting flags... and my first visitor from Serbia🥳
So glad to meet you all☠️

27/10/2026

Finally got our display of eye baths on show. You would be surprised to know what we used to disenfect our eyes with in the past!💀

27/10/2026

They don't have to be filled with caffeine😉☠️
Book a visit here to get one
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26/10/2026

23/10/2026

Today the museum was visited by Nils who runs the World of Poison.. we had a proper nerd-out session and now I'm looking forward to when I visit Welt der Gifte in Salzburg, Austria !☠️🐍🦂🕷🌿🦎🇦🇹

22/10/2026

What's you favourite colour?🤗☠️

20/10/2026

A selection of exhibits from Germany
- a glass funnel for poisons from the early 1900's
- a porcelain container for chromegelb hell (yellow colouring for artists paint) which was traditionally made with toxic lead chromate
- a very early, 1900's, labelled Lysol bottle
- a 1930's Bayer company green poison bottle
- a ca 1950's "Goldgeist" pyrethrum 💀head-lice treatment bottle
- a ca 1900 mercury chloride bottle, used as disenfectant
- a green bottle that contained ammonium hydroxide... actually, THIS one is Swiss😉☠️

16/10/2026

This Norwegian sprayer from the 1950's, is branded Kverk-Sprøyta DDT, and was used when powerful chemical pesticides were the "go-to" as modern solutions to agricultural and household pests💀

DDT -dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane - long name that! is a synthetic insecticide once widely used to kill mosquitoes, flies and crop pests. Its effectiveness made it hugely popular, but its persistence in the environment, accumulation in wildlife and harmful effects on ecosystems led to major restrictions and bans.

Associated with Norwegian chemical company A/S Plantevern-Kjemi of Skøyen, Oslo, this old sprayer has survived quite well and fits in with the story we tell at the museum about household poison use - yesterday’s miracle chemicals can become tomorrow’s environmental warnings 🧪☠️