For one night only, the Old Operating Theatre is throwing accuracy out the window!
Join us for April Fool’s Medicine, where history takes a hilarious wrong turn. With the museum team and some of London’s sharpest comedians, we’ll dive into completely fabricated tales of health, surgery, and medicine - where facts are optional, and laughs are guaranteed. Your host, Steve Cross, might even argue that Florence Nightingale was a Disney princess!
Expect a wildly entertaining evening of absurdity, storytelling, and comedic chaos - without a single historically accurate fact in sight!
ABOUT THE OLD OPERATING THEATRE & HERB GARRET
Housed in the attic of the early eighteenth-century church of the old St Thomas’ Hospital, The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret 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.
ABOUT STEVE CROSS
Dr Steve Cross is the founder of Bright Club and Science Showoff. Cross acts as a master of ceremonies during Science Showoff events. He is a past winner of the Joshua Phillips Award for Innovation in Science Engagement. In 2007, he was the head curator of the Medicine Man gallery at the Welcome Collection.