One of the most unusual museums in London

The Old Operating Theatre Museum features an operating or emergency room, in the roof space of an English Baroque Church. It is a museum of surgical history and one of the oldest surviving operating theatres in London.

The patients at the Old Operating Theatre were all women, usually poor. Surgeons operating here had no recourse to anesthetics (first introduced in 1847) and depended on swift technique to perform surgery - mainly amputations. The Operating Theatre closed down before antiseptic surgery was invented.