Free Chocolate at the Old Operating Theatre this Easter!

Free Chocolate Therapy at the Old Operating Theatre this Easter!

On Good Friday 21st March at 2pm, kids can learn all about medicinal uses of chocolate, and make a yummy Easter goody box. For those with stronger stomachs, Victorian Surgery runs on Easter Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday at 2pm.

Event included in Museum admission (£5.45 adult, £3 child)

Operation Cocoa!
Friday 21st March at 2pm
Children's discovery workshop exploring the medicinal properties
of chocolate. Discover ancient and modern chocolate therapies
and make your own Easter goody box, with free chocolate to take away!

Victorian Surgery
Saturday 22nd, Sunday 23 and Monday 24th March at 2pm
"A patient preparing for an operation was like a condemned criminal preparing for execution."
A demonstration of an operation without anaesthetics or antiseptics, in Britain's only remaining wooden 19th century Operating Theatre.
How will you survive...?

Chocolate supplied courtesy of Divine Fairtrade chocolate (www.dubble.co.uk), Cadbury's (www.cadbury.co.uk) and Green & Black's (www.greenandblacks.com)

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