perks!Things to Do
Your essential guide to the very best things to do around London
Old Operating Theatre Museum
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 1822 for poor women, the theatre has been restored with original furniture and equipment, including a nineteenth-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.
Venue says: “What can be better than having a Mad Hatter's Tea Party in the attic of an eighteenth-century church on July 26? Book via our website!”
Latest offers
Two courses and a drink at Viet Eat
Don’t miss this ace food-and-drink deal at the Vietnamese spot in Holborn.
Banh Bao Brothers
A six-course tasting menu and a drink at a Vietnamese joint near Waterloo.
Upcoming events in the capital
RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
The fantastic high-summer flower show is back
Upcoming Time Out events
Silent Disco at The View from The Shard
Dance at the top of the world - well, western Europe at least - tickets just £37.50
Silent disco at the SEA LIFE London Aquarium
Join us for a night of revelry with the brand new jellyfish at this world-famous landmark. Tickets from £29.
