In Budapest is opened an underground museum

The Hungarian capital amazes the imagination of unprepared tourists not only with luxurious palaces and numerous monuments of architecture, amazing restaurants with national cuisine, spectacular river cruises, a variety of the finest European spa resorts, but also with original ideas. One of such innovations was the opening of unique underground museum in a former military hospital.

The original museum was established on the former site of a secret underground military hospital that is located directly under the historical castle of the Hungarian kings of Buda. During World War II a unique underground building served not only as the hospital for 200 patients, but also a shelter, in the underground corridors of which were housed up to 1000 wounded.

According to the director of the museum Gabor Tata, the hospital was especially in demand during the war years, particularly 1944-45, and during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. To create a more realistic atmosphere of war-time organizers of the museum “Hospital in the Rock” rejected the traditional photographs and documentary evidence in the form of books, and used the wax figures and clothing of that period. You can also see the original tools and equipment of the Second World War, plunge into the atmosphere of that time, visiting a makeshift operating room of the underground hospital at the time of air-raid of German bombers, and to see operating doctors, throwing blood-soaked bandages, or nurses who take bandages from the dead to help the live.

According to the administrator of the museum recently opened "Hospital in the rock" is a quite unique exhibition, which has no analogues in Europe.