Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum, Könyvtár és Levéltár
In Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum, Könyvtár és Levéltár, this site once housed the Meindl House, an 18th‑century building at the foot of Castle Hill where Ignaz Semmelweis was born in 1818. The Meindl House is a listed national monument, famous as the birthplace of the physician later nicknamed the “saviour of mothers” for pioneering hand disinfection to prevent childbed fever. Semmelweis himself, born on July 1, 1818, was the fifth child of the Semmelweis family; his father ran a spice and general goods shop named Zum weißen Elefanten on the ground floor of the same building. The Semmelweis Museum, Library and Archive of the History of Medicine was established in 1965 in this historic house and became a department of the Hungarian National Museum in 2017. The collection traces the development of healthcare in Hungary and marks the main stages in European medical history. …
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