Kresz Géza Ambulance Museum
The Cultural Heritage of the Rescue Palace The Rescue Palace on Markó Street, a gable-roofed building complex built in 1890 in the neo-Renaissance style. Designed by Hungarian architect Zsigmond Vágfalvi Quittner (Pest, February 13, 1857 – Vienna, October 25, 1918), the multi-functional building has been serving our country’s rescue services for 135 years.
Dr. Szemlőhegyi Kresz Géza (Pest, August 30, 1845 – Budapest, April 10, 1901) was a Hungarian physician and royal advisor. It served as the home of the first Hungarian rescue institution, the Budapest Volunteer Rescue Association, built by a knight of the Order of Franz Joseph. It then continued its operation as the headquarters of the National Rescue Service, founded in 1948 as the legal successor to the capital's rescue services.
For 77 years now, it has been home to the General Directorate of the Rescue Service, its administrative departments, the rescue organizations of the Central Hungary region, the Rescue Museum, the Cellar Hospital and the Library. Last but not least, the most important: the Central Rescue Station, which has been operating within its walls 0-24 hours a day since 1890.
As an extremely practical solution, the II. During World War II and the 1956 revolution and war of independence, a temporary relief hospital also operated, enabling ambulances to provide immediate care and long-term treatment to critically injured people. The Cellar Hospital, presented as part of the Dr. Kresz Géza Ambulance Museum, is a worthy reminder of this.
1055 Budapest, Markó street 22.
Rescue Museum (1055 Budapest, Markó utca) RESCUE HISTORY EXHIBITION (June 21, 2025 7:00 PM – June 22, 2025 12:30 AM) The Carpathia lifeboat and the survivors of the Titanic The development of life-saving technical equipment in Hungary (defibrillators, ECGs, pacemakers) From the ambulance to the ambulance Rescue in the past and today, selected film screening on the topic Model exhibition by guest exhibitor Tamás Gyöngyösi LECTURES IN THE RESCUE PALACE'S Banquet Hall – 1ST FLOOR June 21, 2025 8:00 PM – June 21, 2025 12:30 AM Dr. Gábor Debrődi: 135 years of the Rescue Palace 9:00 PM Dr. Gábor Zacher: Our Everyday Poisons – The History of Drug Use 22:00 János Bathó: Newer Rescue Specifications, Developments at the National Rescue Service 23:00 Zoltán Papp: The History of the RMS Carpathia Emigrant Ship. The Role of Rescue Doctor Dr. Árpád Lengyel in the Rescue of Titanic Survivors BASEMENT HOSPITAL 1956 (June 21, 2025, 7:00 PM – June 22, 2025, 12:30 AM) The air defense basement and operating room of the Rescue Palace can be visited with a repeating film screening every thirty minutes. By group AMBULANCE PALACE-UDVAR (Markó Street) June 21, 2025 7:00 PM – June 22, 2025 12:30 AM On two wheels in the night – presentation of an ambulance and an ambulance bicycle, Rolling museum, mobile exhibition area and projector. The second life of a contemporary ambulance, Dodge Job Rated K series veteran ambulance from the 1950s and today's most modern Mercedes-Benz 316 ambulance, "You too can save a life!" Live first aid interpretation demonstration led by experts.