The Health and Social Welfare Ministry invested two million kuna in the equipment of the museum, called "A Place of Remembrance - Vukovar Hospital 1991".
During the Serb aggression on the eastern Croatian town in 1991, hospital services and wards were placed in the hospital basement, as were the wounded.
At the entrance to the museum visitors can see a video recording showing the war-time events in the hospital, with a chronology of events from April 2 to November 18, 1991, being displayed on the basement wall tiles.
A special technique was used to inscribe into basement walls the names of Croatian soldiers and medical staff who were taken from the hospital and executed on the Ovcara farm outside Vukovar on November 20, 1991.
In the hospital's former nuclear shelter a scene was staged with dummies showing patients in beds and new born babies in incubators, with special audio and video effects.
At least 2,500 wounded people, mostly civilians, were treated in the hospital during the war. The youngest patient was six months old, and the oldest was 88. Sixteen children were born in the hospital during the three-month siege of the town.
The museum was opened by Health and Social Welfare Minister Neven Ljubicic, who was accompanied by the hospital manager, Vesna Bosanac.
Ljubicic said that the Vukovar General Hospital would be fully reconstructed in the next three years.
The reconstruction of the hospital, which today employs 450 people, including 104 doctors and 250 nurses, will cost some 100 million kuna, Ljubicic said.
Bosanac said that the during the war the hospital was hit by 70 to 80 shells daily, the highest number of impacts being 700.
After the opening of the museum, the second seminar "Vukovar War Hospital 1991" started in a local pastoral centre. The event was organised by the national association of volunteer physicians and the Vukovar General Hospital.