The HNM Semmelweis Museum of the History of Medicine, together with the National Medical History Library (1950), the Archives (1974) and Golden Eagle Pharmacy Museum (1975) make up the most important research basis of the hungarian medical history. The Museum opened in 1965, and it is located in former birthplace of Ignác Semmelweis, on the Buda side of Budapest. In the last five decades the collection got highly extended, and thus by now it forms one of the richest medical historical collections. The collection embraces the hungarian medicine, pharmacy and medical system, but these are naturally supplemented by the objective relics of western medicine.
The permanent exhibition represents the development of western medicine from the prehistoric age to the beginning of the 20th century and special emphasis was placed on the development of hungarian medical system, the work of Ignaz Semmelweis and the establishment of the modern hungarian medication.