Sunday
11-3PM - Drop in
All ages (children accompanied by an adult)

For centuries, the London Bridge area has been the site of the world’s most significant developments in healthcare, science and medicine and life-changing work.

Learn about medical history and create a herbal bag to combat foul smelling air with the Old Operating Theatre.

The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret is housed in the attic of the early eighteenth-century church of the old St Thomas’ Hospital, this atmospheric museum offers a unique insight into the history of medicine and surgery. The original timber framed Herb Garret was once used to dry and store herbs for patients’ medicines and in 1822 an operating theatre was included. Predating anaesthetics and antiseptics, it is the oldest surviving surgical theatre in Europe.