Drag mouse to move around or click on arrows on left of panel. Toggle Space bar to display information. Or Click autotour and sit back to watch!

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The Old Operating Theatre

The Museum provides a memorable experience for any visitor interested in the past. It is one of the most unusual places - a place lost in the past.

The Museum is found at the top of a rickety spiral staircase in the barn-like roof space of an old Church. The Operating Theatre is built in the old Herb Garret of St Thomas's Hospital. While the Garret has a charming old world atmosphere of oak beams and bundles of herbs, the Theatre itself is a shocking reminder of the harsh reality of life before modern science and technology. Many places claim to 'bring the past to life'. But this is not Disney cuteness or Heritage complacency. This is the past stripped bare. See for your self!

If you cannot come to the Museum then, take the Interactive Tour of the Museum!  Continue the Interactive Tour of the Museum into the Old Operating Theatre, or the Antechamber, Herb Garret or visit St Thomas St. It was written by Stuart Franey using Java.