Hospital in the Rock tickets: 30 EUR for the English-language guided tour, no photos inside, and no children under 6

💡 The Short Version: The museum can be visited only on a guided tour of about 60 minutes, which is in the price: 30 EUR (about £25.50) for the English programme, charged in forint at the Hungarian National Bank’s daily rate. No photos, videos or recordings. No children under 6. It is open every day from 10:00 to 19:00, takes cards only, and has limited capacity, so book online. The museum, under Buda Castle, was an emergency hospital in the Second World War and a nuclear bunker in the Cold War. There is no GetYourGuide ticket for it. Or book a tour: the Buda Castle cave tourad (from £14) is the other way underground.

The tickets, compared

Prices are from the museum’s price page. The museum is run by “The Rock” Museum Public Benefit Foundation, and its own site is sziklakorhaz.eu: look-alike ticket sites turn up in search results. Euro figures are converted at about £0.85 to the euro. The English programme is paid in forint at the Hungarian National Bank’s daily rate, and the amount is shown on the screen of the museum’s vending machines. Every discount needs ID.

• Groups of more than 15 get 10% off the service fee for group members.
• The Budapest Card gives 10% off the normal ticket price, according to the museum’s own price page.
• The prices have not changed since June 2025.
• SZÉP cards are accepted for the standard visit, and only if you buy in the museum.

How to buy

• Online: the museum’s online tickets menu shows the tour start times and sells tickets by card. The museum has limited capacity and advises buying ahead.
• At the museum: vending machines take credit cards, and the ticket counter takes only SZÉP cards. The ticket office is open from 10:00 to 18:00.
• Groups of more than 14 register in advance.
• Audio guides are included for the English tours, in nine languages: German, Italian, French, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian and English.

Tours worth paying for

The museum has no ticket on GetYourGuide, and its guided tour is part of the price. The products below are other ways to see the hill, from GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

The cave tour

From £14 · 4.6 stars from 7,682 reviews · 40 minutes to 1.5 hours

Budapest: Buda Castle Cave Tourad goes underground beneath Castle Hill, and is the largest GetYourGuide product on the hill. It is a different attraction from the Hospital in the Rock, with its own operator and ticket.

A walk over the hill

From £10 · 4.6 stars from 2,393 reviews · 2 hours

Budapest: Buda Castle District Walking Tourad covers the district above the museum. The Buda Castle guide compares the other walks.

What to see

The guide takes you through the museum’s 2,000 square metres of underground rooms in 60 minutes, and tailors each tour to the group, so the order is the guide’s. The hospital was an emergency facility in the Second World War and in the 1956 revolution, it became a nuclear bunker in the Cold War, and it stayed top secret until 2002. The tour covers these exhibitions:

1. The history of the hospital and its medical tools. Surgical and other instruments from 1940 to 1980, including lung staplers and a double-bladed bone saw.
2. The Friedrich Born memorial room. Born, the Red Cross delegate in Hungary, saved more than 15,000 people in the Holocaust, and moved his headquarters into the hospital in December 1944.
3. The Air Raid Alarm Centre “K”. The earliest-built part of the complex, which ran the Castle District’s sirens from 1937 to 1945.
4. The Siege of Budapest exhibition, which opened in 2016 and covers 1944 to 1945.
5. The nuclear exhibition, in the machinery that would have kept the bunker alive after an attack.

What to skip: nothing, since the tour is one fixed hour and you cannot leave it. The shop and the ticket office close at 18:00.

The entrance to the Hospital in the Rock museum on Lovas út. Photo: Nabbegat, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Tours: about 60 minutes, in groups of up to 25.
• Photos: none. Photos, videos and audio recordings are banned.
• Children: none under 6, and under 12 is not recommended. Children from 6 to 12 visit only with a supervising adult.
• Payment: cards only, as above.
• Getting there: the museum is at Lovas út 4/c. From Matthias Church, walk along Szentháromság utca to Tóth Árpád sétány, opposite the church, and take the stairs or the lift down to Lovas út. Turn right, and the entrance is three metres along. The funicular is closed from 5 to 16 October 2026, and Budapest public transport has the bus fares up the hill.

The Fisherman’s Bastion and Matthias Church are a short walk away, and the Buda Castle and National Gallery guide is the rest of the hill. The House of Terror covers the same century from the surface. The Budapest Card takes a discount off the ticket. For the rest of the city’s bookings, see what to book before you go to Budapest. 3 days in Budapest and Budapest in one day fit it in as a wet-day option, and Budapest’s thermal baths compared is the other one. To sleep on the hill, where to stay in Budapest compares the areas, and where to eat in Budapest lists places to eat.