Hospital In The Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum

In 1958 the hospital in the rock was expanded and upgraded to a nuclear bunker which was designed to survive any nuclear or chemical attack while still functioning as a self supplying hospital.

Hospital in the rock nuclear bunker museum. We are pleased that your unplanned visit at our sight became a positive surprise. Book your tickets online for hospital in the rock nuclear bunker museum budapest. Terminus48 wrote a review mar 2020. Best regards hospital in the rock nuclear bunker museum.

Hospital in the rock nuclear bunker museum after the change of regime of 1989 the hospital was completely renovated between 2006 and 2008. Best regards hospital in the rock nuclear bunker museum. This hospital was used during and after the war and at the height of the cold war they also made it a nuclear bunker. Part of the vast interconnected caves beneath castle hill hospital in the rock nuclear bunker museum served as a nuclear bunker and emergency hospital during 20th century wartime.

During world war ii the 10 km 6 mi of caves and cellars in this region were connected and used as a bomb shelter. The institution was re opened as a functioning hospital in 1956 at the start of the revolution. The hospital in the rock nuclear bunker museum hungarian. Sziklakórház atombunker múzeum is the name given to a hospital created in the caverns under buda castle in budapest in the 1930s in preparation for the second world war.

The hospital in the rock is a small but very interesting museum. We recommend booking hospital in the rock nuclear bunker museum tours ahead of time to secure your spot. Emsworth 27 contributions 8 helpful votes. Part of the castle hill caves network this subterranean hospital was used extensively during the wwii siege of budapest and during the 1956 uprising.

As a result of continous development nowadays you can experience a huge exhibition with more than 1500 objects and over 200 vax figures in the hospital in the rock nuclear bunker museum. Dear dawn1897 thank you for visiting the hospital in the rock and for leaving a review. It contains original medical equipment as well as some 200 wax figures and is visited on a guided one hour tour which includes a walk through a cold war era nuclear bunker and an eight minute introductory video. Thank you for highlighting the work of our local guide milan.

A nice guide takes you on a tour that lasts just under an hour and shows you around the hospital explaining the hard times of the second world war the communist era and the plans to use it as a nuclear bunker. See all 6 hospital in the rock nuclear bunker museum tours on tripadvisor.