The Campaign for London’s Small Museums
Saturday 24th May; on the Hour, every hour. 2pm, 3pm, 4pm
SPEED SURGERY!
Demonstrations of Victorian surgery, when operations were performed without anaesthesia, and a
patient’s only relief from agony was the speed of the surgeon’s knife.
22-24th, 28th-31st May 2003
UNDER COVERS
at The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
Three new plays at one of London's most intriguing interiors
by Melanie Challenger
directed by James Bellorini
Set over three centuries in the same London house this trilogy of plays moves from the brutality of
working class Victorian life to the heyday of the sixties and finally to student life in the present day. When
a violent event takes place, the centuries and the lives of those inhabiting the room become forever
bound together.
Tickets £8, £6 concessions
Box Office & Reservations 0207 955 4791
Programme of Walks for Museums and Galleries Month
Kevin Flude, the Museum’s Director has organised the following 2 walks for Museums Week. Your ticket
price will be donated in full to the Museum’s Development Project.
THE DICKENS IN SOUTHWARK WALK
1pm Friday 23rd May 2003, £5.00, Meet outside the Old Operating Theatre Museum
9a, St Thomas St, SE1 9RY, 2 min walk from London Bridge Underground
On this special walk we explore the special part that Southwark played in Dickens’ life and career; a
lunchtime walk aiming to evoke the London of Dickens’ youth lead by Museum Director, Kevin Flude
THE CITY & THE PEASANTS REVOLT WALK
1.30pm Saturday 24th May 2003, £5.00, Meet at Aldgate Underground Station
A dramatic guided tour following the Peasants from Aldgate to Smithfield where the final confrontation
between Wat Tyler and the young King Richard II took place, lead by Museum Director Kevin Flude.
To book for these walks, please make cheque out to the Lord Brock Memorial Trust and post to the
Museum c/o the Development Fund
Half Term Events
Tuesday 27th May at 2.30pm
Pills, Potions, Poisons
Explore the herb room of a 19th century hospital and discover the strange remedies of the past. Hands on
history with pill making and poultices.
Friday 30th May at 2.30pm
Victorian Surgery
"I have broken my arm, I am a dead man!"
An demonstration of the ordeals of surgery without anaesthesia when a patient’s fate rested on the skill of
the surgeon’s knife. A real amputation kit awaits! How will you survive?
Saturday 7th June at 2.00pm
The Apothecary
FROM GARDEN TO GARRET
An Apothecary Tour exploring the use of medicinal plants
Starting within the fresh herb garden of St George the Martyr Church, Southwark, there will be a short
walk to the oak beamed garret of the old St Thomas’ Hospital, where there will be a demonstration of
traditional medicinal preparations – of infusions, poultices, pills and tablets.
Starts at 2pm, St George’s Garden, opposite St George the Martyr Church
Borough High Street, Southwark, SE1
Nearest Tube; Borough
The National Art Collections Fund
Science Cannot Be Art?
An Art Happens Event
Join the Debate!
July 1st 2003 at 7.00 - 8.00pm
at the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, London SE1
nearest tube; London Bridge
A discussion on the ethics and morality of the appropriation of science by art.
Hosted by Professor Harold Ellis, Emitrius Professor of Surgery at the University of London,
With artist Rob Kessler (NESTA fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew,
and Denna Jones, curator of Growth and Form, an exhibition of Science and Art at the Wellcome Trust's
Two10 Gallery.
further speakers to be confirmed
LIMITED TICKET AVAILABILITY FOR THIS EVENT