Old Operating Theatre Museum

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Time Out says

Mon Sep 24 2012

Britain's oldest surviving purpose-built operating theatre, the Old Operating Theatre Museum is situated in a herb garret in the roof of St Thomas's Church. Built in 1821 for poor women, the theatre has been restored with original furniture and equipment, including a 19th-century operating table, surgical instruments and pathological specimens. Visitors enter via a vertiginous wooden staircase to view a pre-anaesthetic operating theatre with tiered viewing seats for students; sanitised reenactments are sometimes held. Just as gruesome as the operating tools that look like torture implements. Temporary exhibitions also take place, which often combine art with explorations of pathology.

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Venue location

Address:
St Thomas Church
Old Operating Theatre Museum 9a St Thomas St
United Kingdom
London
SE1 9RY

Website:
www.thegarret.org.uk
Opening hours:
Daily 10.30am-5pm
Transport:
Tube: London Bridge
Price:
£6.20, £5 concs, £3.50 under-16s, £13.90 family (up to 2 adults and 4 children from same family)
Map
1. St Thomas Church
  - St Thomas Church
    9a St Thomas St
    United Kingdom
    London
    SE1 9RY
  - www.thegarret.org.uk
  - 51.504923,-0.087915

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