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Semmelweis Museum of Medical History

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Semmelweis Museum of Medical History
Semmelweis Museum of Medical History. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Semmelweis Museum, Library and Archive of the History of Medicine (Hungarian: Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum, Könyvtár és Levéltár) is a museum, library and archive in Budapest, Hungary. It was founded in 1965, and became a department of the Hungarian National Museum in 2017. The museum is located in the 18th-century house where Ignaz Semmelweis was born in 1818. The exhibition covers the development of healthcare in Hungary and the main stages in the history of medicine in Europe.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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