I took a tour before the museum opened. The guide was very knowledgeable and the small group experience was nice. There is a free trolley that runs up and down that main road. There are really nice restaurants close by too. I had a lovely time in the area.

An absolute must see! Visiting the apothecary was like taking a step back in time. Everything is preserved and original to the early 1900s. The bell jars even contain their original contents which include many exotic chemicals and tinctures. The bookshelves are stocked with original pharmaceutical journals and many of the storage drawers contain their original contents. I highly recommend the tour.

So many fascinating things to see. Artifacts! History on display. The untouched and preserved history really illustrates the way our society has always placed high value on improving health. The druggist shop is a cool place to visit in Old Town.

Interesting pharmacy museum. I gave it three stars instead of four or five because1) I don’t care for being forced into guided tours.2) The tour was too short (30 minutes)3) We were supervised like little school children. I understand that everything in the building is historical and needs to be preserved, but while we were in courage to ask questions, they were also quick to usher us out to receive the last tour of the day. I spent more time getting to the museum than I did actually getting to enjoy it. If I had never visited a pharmacy museum before or an apothecary museum before, I would have been even more disappointed.

We went to the behind the scenes Sunday morning tour and it was fascinating! Loved all of the original items. And the artifacts are indeed original. It was bought by a historical society from the owners.

Very neat place to visit. Lots on undisturbed history.

This place is really cool with an interesting history. It is a guided tour and the tour guide is fantastic and patient. Truly an enjoyable and learning experience.

Fun little museum. Took the tour and really enjoyed it. A lot of history inside this small building.

An excellent and informative experience!!Take the tour! The $5 price is a perfect deal for what turns out to be a short (30 minutes or so) but deeply interesting glimpse into medicinal and local history!

One of the best in a summer full of tours of houses, businesses and such from this era. Knowledgeable staff, good stories, authentic goods!

Love Middleburg. Nice place to visit.

Super cool museum to check out. Small and quick to get through but very informative and everything was really cool to see. Our guide was very friendly. They have Harry Potter nights!!!! Highly recommend.

Very interesting lol place full of history.

- Friendly staff- Nice 40min tour but it depends on how talkative people are- Little gift shop with cool stuff- nice history lesson- Would highly recommend

Fascinating historical Apothecary. Original items from the early days of the US including a hand written order request from Martha Washington.

Fascinating. Get the guided tour, 5$, if youre interested in the production of medicine and ointments during the last 150 years

Very cool place for the tourist or local resident. Well preserved and interring place

A great little museum, locked away for decades and so preserved extremely well.

5 stars all the wayI could listen to stories about this store all day.The ladies are super nice, very knowledgeable, funny and friendly.They have a fun gift shop that I regret not buying more.If I’m ever in town again I would do this tour again.

I did a quick tour at this mini pharmacy museum a few hours before my flight and Im glad I did that. The tour is quick and affordable and I didnt have to wait long since they start a tour every after 30 minutes. Our guide is very knowledgeable and we are welcome to ask any questions we like. I enjoyed my trip here and amazed how they were able to maintain such a unique museum.

I loved my tour at Stabler-Leadbeater! The guide, Brittany, made the tour fun and engaging. She explained the history of the apothecary and medical practices of the time. The tour only cost $5 and was about 30 minutes in length. There are also special tours to choose from, like an Outlander-related tour, at certain times of year. I definitely recommend checking out this museum!

So neat ! So darling, too. Glad to have stopped by for their free open house!

Wow! Just WOW! Super cool museum that is time capsule of history. Wonderful knowledgeable docents. Must see in Alexandria

Interesting step back in time!

Interesting tour from very nice people. Fun little stop in Old Town

Great little museum and a cool spot to take photos.

I unfortunately have to down vote due to the tour guide. The museum was nice and well preserved but I got tired of feeling like we were being glared at for breathing and possibly touching something.

Interesting but short tour. There are only two rooms it interest but its worth the visit.

Its a long running pharmacy left as it stood when it closed in the early 20th century. They have a small gift shop and do tours on 15 and 45 past the hour during their open hours for $5. The tour takes you into the shop portion of the pharmacy/apothecary and into the warehouse area where they mixed (compounded) and stored items for wholesale. The building and all of the original jars, boxes, and storage containers are neat to see. This particular apothecary is steeped in history- they supplied medicines to Congress. I think the tour is well worth the time and money. I dock it a star since a more knowledgeable tour guide could really make this a unique and interesting experience by expanding on the history or ingredients used as medicine. If I understand correctly, all if the employees/tour-guides are volunteers, so its probably hit or miss what a particular guide knows and can offer.

Such an amazing place. Incredibly well preserved and an important part of the citys history.

Our tour guide was incredibly knowledgeable which made for an excellent understanding of the workings of the apothecary. Even if herbs and oils arent your thing, this is a great place to visit if you love history and architecture.

Authentic and well preserved. They give a tour for $5 that gives great details about the apothecary and medicines of the time.

Very cool place! Disappointed in the guide - she wasn’t friendly or welcoming. At one point I wanted a picture of something without other people in it and so I patiently waited for people to leave the room. As I went to take the photo (which takes seconds) she impolitely informed me that the tour was over and there would be no more pictures. It was worth the $5, hopefully you get a nicer guide!

A unique and relatively unknown destination to check out! Apperantly Martha Washington would buy medicine here. When I last went I took my boyfriend and no one else was there so we were given a private tour! Very informative guide and a cool and unusual bit of history!

What a neat little tour. Wish we would have known about the behind the counter tour which includes 3rd floor and basement

This is a well-preserved example of an early 20th century apothecarys shop. The tour was informative and entertaining. Ask about their Harry Potter-themed events.

Amazing original apothecary shop and storage from the 1800s. Great quick tour, amazing that the storage is of real herbs and medicines

$5 fee for a 30 min tour. Good info and nice history.

Very cool museum if youre into this sort of thing. Take the Geek Tour, you get more behind the scenes action

So beautiful, unique and interesting. A total hidden gem with fantastically interesting tours

What a great little museum and tour! Well worth the cost of admission. Very interesting.

Some good interesting things to see

Great little tour. Not free ($10) but tour hosted by retired professor of pharmacology who was extremely knowledgeable about all the old remedies and history of the store and families. Good fun.

Great piece of Americana. Building remains almost everything as it was 100 years ago! Loads of authentic glass, wooden, and even crock containers full of actual herbs, drugs, chemicals, and even poisons! I would have spent more time if they werent closing.

The tour was very interesting!

This place is amazing. I only wish that the tour was longer because it is so interesting. The tour guide was very knowledgeable and spoke slowly as I was interpreting for a relative in a different language. The gift store also has very interesting things, including the recipes from back in the day!

Interesting Apothecary in old town Alexandria - they have kid events periodically. When crossing the threshold into the storage room, look up...a mummified chicken leg affixed to the top of the entrance way! Ask them about it, if they dont mention it during the tour.

Must see, predecessor of a modern pharmacy. Staff is very helpful and knowledgeable, they are all volunteers, so please donate for this wonderful place to keep it open & running.Also don’t forget to check out Martha Washington’s big order of laxatives!!

The Carlyle House is a must visit! A gem that is a must see. This house had such a varied and historic history. George Washington was here! He was related to Carlyle through marriage. Five governors met in this house pre-Revolution. Start in the basement to start the tour You can see the bones that make up this house- and the modern efforts it took to make it stable enough for humans to visit. There is original furniture that was donated back to the museum by family. Adelightful must see.

So interesting. Tour guide was really kind and informative. Such a little gem of a museum. Definitely worth more than the small admission fee.

We enjoyed this little museum. Come for the old chemicals and stay for the Quaker witchcraft.

Great place to take a tour. The guides are friendly and quite knowledgeable. Also great for Harry Potter fans. Take the kids with you.

Nifty little attraction tucked away in old town alexandria.

Love the museum and live volunteering there. We need to get back soon.

This was the four time Ive gotten a tour. If you like unique history this is a tour to see when in Alexandria.

Superb Oh Toro! Excellent sushi and sashimi! Fabulous service! We will be back.

O M G.This place is so cool. Like. It is a place frozen in time. You walk in, and you are looking at the exact same things that someone at the end of the 19th century was looking at. Even cooler is that during the tour, they take you up to the workrooms where they stored their medicines and ingredients. It was like being in a history book.The gift shop also has a bunch of cool items that are either made right there or are hard to find elsewhere.You must visit!

Wow. My wife and I attended a Geek Tour here recently and it was excellent. The guide was welcoming and extremely knowledgeable. We plan to return. Geek Tour passee can be purchased online or in store but they only occur on special dates(see website)

Didnt know this place existed. We took out K-4th graders for a tour and the gift shop. Everything was age appropriate but better for 3rd gd and up. The experience was awesome.

Great and affordable tour lead by a friendly and knowledgeable guide. The slice of life details of an old pharmacy are what made it for me.

An interesting look at the pharmacy business over the last hundred and fifty years. $5 for adults $3 for kids gets you a guided tour that lasts half an hour and takes you through a couple of different rooms in a former apothecary. Interesting to understand how people treated illness and used drugs and medicine in the past.

Awesome fun with the adult Harry Potter tour. Snape was the best!

Really neat experience... the teens were fascinated which is always a plus!!

You can take a fairly short tour here, but this place is a relic. They have maintained a lot of the original building, and it is really interesting to see and hear about. Things get really exciting when you get into the attic. I would highly recommend.

Took my mom, who is a clinical pharmacist, and she really enjoyed it, as did I. Its neat seeing this bit of history Frozen in time. The guides are super knowledgeable and able to answer any and all questions. Its not a long tour, but its certainly a memorable one.

We really wanted to see the apothecary shop - it seemed like an awesome place for Harry Potter and fantasy lovers. We didnt get to see the apothecary side because the lady was on the phone (which is okay), and we didnt want to feel awkward waiting. There werent many people in there, so maybe stop by on the weekend when there will be more visitors. Im sure the apothecary side is cool!

Loved seeing the shop in its original state - great history stop.

This tour would have been better maybe if i were not the only person on the tour. The historical store fixtures are vary interesting. When I tour places like this, I think about what will be left in 200 years of todays special places. Who thought to keep all the records? The notes for an order from Martha Washington? The cabinets still stocked with herbs and the tools of the trade? It really is quite interesting.

Great tour and little shop. Staff was very knowledgeable and accommodating!

Interesting look into early pharmaceuticals. Original containers, ingredients, and equipment.

Awesome place. This is as it was when it was last open in 1931!!!

Fascinating look back at how pharmacies used to be. Lovely little museum.

Step into the history of Earl America.

Great little trip through history for $5. I could spend a month just digging through the upstairs. A really cool place. The tour guides were wonderful

I highly recommend everyone visit. What a hidden gem. We did a Harry Potter tour and had so much fun while learning about the history of the building and the role of the ingredients in HP.

Amazing shop and knowledgeable guides. Must see!

Very interesting tour for history lovers and a great price ($5)! They also offer a variety of interesting events that I will definitely be checking out. Staff is very knowledgeable and enjoyable to talk with. Love this place!

So much interesting medical/pharmaceutical history!

Had the geek tour and it was great. Learned so much and got to ask questions. If you are a local this is the tour to take if you are scheduling it.

This is a super cool and inexpensive place to learn about the first American Pharmacies. You will feel like you have truly traveled back in time. Some of the stories you will hear will make your jaw drop. The tour guide was very knowledgeable but spoke a little bit fast for my pace. I could have spent more time in this place.

Pretty disappointing- go to the Apothecary in Fredericksburg for a real history lesson - live leeches, lots of instruments and friendly tour guides. This place just has old bottles & jars.

A fun place to step into the past. As an acupuncturist and herbalist myself, I enjoyed seeing this as apothecary and museum.

Really cool for herbalists physicians or pharmacists, knowledgeable guide, small and short but very interesting

Fantastic way to spend an hour. What’s not to like about a museum with trap doors, drugs and bottled unicorn blood. They also have special events where you can make your own magical potions!

I learned so much about the products used in colonial times.

If you check out this museum, see if you can get a free tour and request Jon. He really knows his stuff. If youre a Harry Potter fan, visit the upstairs at the end of the tour!

Hidden gem. Two tours every hour. See some real history. Must see in Old Town

Really interesting history and a great guided tour!

This museum is amazing! Of course I had a private tour by Gretchen Bulova. Which might not mean a lot to you...I have been to the museum when its open to the public and its extraordinary! One can capture the way a purveyor may have felt a hundred fifty years ago...But to be admitted when the apothecary is closed, invokes a little bit of the spirit of the supernatural. You catch a glimpse of the ghostly patrons of the past, discussing their illnesses and potential remedies with a long deceased pharmacologist.Alas, Gretchen and I were there on business, she showing me some plasterer work that needed to be done as a result of some leaking.

Great place for family outings

Excellent tour. Highly recommend

An amazingly preserved, historic building. The building is exactly the way it was 100 years ago. Though a short tour, its a unique experience for little cost. Highly recommend.

Cool place, didnt take the tour but still cool

A tremendously preserved history of Early American Apothecaries.

Nothing much but interesting, definitely worth to take the tour

Old town Alexandria historical drug store. Fun and educational tour.

So glad I got to see this.

Small, but very interesting museum. Tours offered for a fee dollars. Worth the stop

Excellent tour of Lincoln’s dispensary preserved in time and includes the shop on the ground floor and factory dispensary on the 1st floor. 1/2hr tour $5

Great service, and a low cost