Mortuary – U R B E X C E N T R A L

Operation In Progress

Occupation is the best security. This hospital – closed since 2007 – has remained relatively untouched and unexplored due to the proximity of its replacement built directly next-door. Held for several years in a land banking holding pattern, the nearly five hectare property with its buildings was approved for sale in 2013 and sold for less than a quarter of its ‘capital value’ (a government estimate) the following year.

August 29, 2020September 3, 2021 by urbexcentral

Ossuary

One’s ability to walk freely into this petite Bulgarian ossuary is somewhat unsettling and confronting in relation to patterns and codes of behaviour around human remains that exist elsewhere. However, the artful calligraphy on the skulls, and our desire and that of others before us – and presumably after us – to leave them undisturbed affords some welcome sanctity. Memento mori: we remember death – both as a concept and the personalisation of it – in these bodily fragments of individuals who have passed away.

August 26, 2020 by urbexcentral

Nudex in the Morgue, NSFW

It took us a while to find this morgue at this infamous abandoned mental hospital in New Zealand that has been ‘landbanked’ and left to decay since 1998.

After many visits of plotting and working out which building could be the morgue of this large sprawling mental hospital we finally found it!

Urbex Central seldom takes the normal approach when taking our photos in abandoned spaces and for this morgue we thought the most fitting of poses was to pose naked, welcome to nudex 2015!

Abandoned Mental Hospital Morgue, New Zealand Urbex

January 24, 2015January 24, 2015 by urbexcentral