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Mount Isa Underground Hospital and Museum

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To outback adventurers the Mount Isa Underground Hospital and Tent House is a step back in time to 1945, by immersing in the nostalgia and the stories of the people who mined Australia’s only world war two underground hospital air raid shelter and lived in houses made of canvas. In this fully guided tour you will uncover the story behind Australia’s first and only underground hospital. You will be immersed in a multi sensory experience as the hidden history is revealed.

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Mount Isa Underground Hospital and Museum: $7

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• Mobile or paper ticket accepted
• One per booking

Cancellation Policy

• For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Additional Info

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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Mount Isa Quickie Tour

Mount Isa, Queensland

Mount Isa Quick gives you a ticket onto the Best of Mount Isa Coach Tour and entry ticket into the Underground Hospital and Museum. These two tours can be done comfortably in a day.

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Best of Mount Isa Tour:  

Our detailed interpretive tour of this amazing outback city starts with it’s discovery by John Campbell Miles in the early twenties and continues along to the present day. We look at the natural fauna of the area and traditional dwellings.  We take a sneaky look at the mine before getting a photo opportunity in front of the lead smelter and bore mill. We visit Mount Isa’s train station only metres from the mine and the end of the line for “Progress and Prosper” as the rail line extension to Darwin never eventuated. Before heading back to Outback at Isa we visit Buchanan Park home to Mount Isa’s world famous Rodeo, the biggest Rodeo in the southern hemisphere.

Underground Hospital:

After the bombing of Darwin in 1942, there was a real fear that Mount Isa with its rich mineral resources would be next. Given that Darwin Hospital was also bombed, there was also genuine concern for Mount Isa Hospital. This prompted a discussion between the then regional District Hospital Director and Superintendent of the mines. Their idea for an Underground Hospital quickly became a reality, carved into the hills near the base of the regional hospital. Over a period of 15 weeks, miners drilled, blasted and mucked out a series of four timbered tunnels into the side of the hill.

Step inside the heritage-listed Tent House, a solution to the 1930s housing shortage in Mount Isa during the early mining boom years. Find out how a common tent was converted into a Tent House; an adaptation of materials to suit a hot, dry climate.

Beth Anderson Museum

The building currently housing the Beth Anderson Museum has a story of its own. It began life as a hospital in Kuridala, a heritage-listed abandoned mining town in the Cloncurry Shire. 

When you are finished sit back and relax on the verandah with a cuppa and Anzac biscuit, included in your ticket.

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