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Mount Isa Underground Hospital and Museum
Joan Street, , 4825 Phone: 61 07 4749 0281 Timings: Note: From April to September, open daily from 1000 to 1400 or other times by appointment. Closed over Christmas and during wet season.About
The first hospital in Mount Isa was a row of tents operated by the company from the earliest years of mining operations. Mount Isa Mines opened a 40 bed Community Hospital on the leases in 1929. Eventually another hospital was built on the Hospital reserve in town. With the expanded hospital complex it was realised with two competing hospitals and funding for both that neither could be run ...more