Victorian Operating Theatre and Mortuary

There’s been a terrible accident on Disease Street! Follow the story to find out what happens when mill girl Hannah Dyson goes under the knife in our recreation of a Victorian operating theatre.

Find out all about surgery in the nineteenth century: a time when operations were swift and brutal, there were no anaesthetics to put you to sleep, and a deadly infection was a likely outcome.

Visit the mortuary to discover how the bodies of the dead have taught us to care for the living.