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Budapest museums · Science and nature
Science and nature · since 1965

Semmelweis Museum

Semmelweis Museum of Medical History
original name: MNM Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum
for enthusiasts
The house where the man who made doctors wash their hands was born shows the history of medicine from inside one life; the Wellcome in London and the museum of the Academy of Medicine in Paris hold more, and neither ties a place to a person like this. The collection is small: two houses, an hour and a half to walk both. Anyone expecting the whole history of Hungarian medicine will be given only its beginning.
Minimum route
1–1.5 hours
Founded
1965
What to see

The grave of Semmelweis in the courtyard of the house where he was born. Medical instruments from antiquity to the twentieth century, gathered across Europe. The Golden Eagle pharmacy in Tárnok utca: the fittings of an old town pharmacy, cabinets, vessels and laboratory. Anatomical wax models of the eighteenth century.

Minimum route — 1–1.5 hours for the essentials

35 minutes in the Apród utca house, the instruments and the wax models. 10 minutes in the courtyard at the grave. 30 minutes at the Golden Eagle pharmacy in the Castle, if that is on the way too.

Reference
About the museum
Ignác Semmelweis (1818–1865) was born in this house at the foot of the Castle Hill; the museum opened here in 1965 and has carried his name from that year. It is now a branch of the Hungarian National Museum. Its second house is the Golden Eagle pharmacy up in the Castle, in Tárnok utca.
Getting in
Addresschecked on 22 August 2026, the museum website
Apród utca 1–3, 1013 Budapest
How to get there
Bus 5, 78 or 178 to Döbrentei tér, then along the foot of the Castle Hill. Fifteen minutes on foot from the Chain Bridge.
Opening times
We have not checked the opening hours. The Golden Eagle Pharmacy Museum in Tárnok utca keeps its own.
When to go
A weekday morning, we would say. Both houses are small, and one school party fills them.
Contacts
semmelweismuseum.hu · +36 1 375 3533
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In the same city

If the Golden Eagle pharmacy up in the Castle turned out to be the best of this house, a second interior of the 1830s was moved whole to Kiscelli, above Óbuda.

for enthusiastsKiscelli Museum

If the Semmelweis house felt too private a story, the parent museum on Múzeum körút sets the same age into the country’s general reckoning.

outstandingNational Museum
· No. 117

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