Bath Medical Museum

The museum was founded in 2012 when the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases opened a small museum inside the former Royal Mineral Water Hospital to showcase its collection of medical artefacts. The museum moved into a room inside a doctors’ office on Great Pulteney Street in late 2019 after the former hospital was sold to a Singapore-based hotel group to be converted into an upscale hotel and, after several years of closure, has now reopened inside the Hetling Pump Room near Thermae Bath Spa.

What to see at the Bath Medical Museum

The Bath Medical Museum has exhibits about the history of medicine including displays showing how the mineral springs in Bath played an important role in the city’s development as a medical hub.

Temporary exhibitions at the Bath Medical Museum

The museum hosts a programme of temporary exhibitions; however, these exhibitions generally run for a very short period (often just for a day or two).

Visiting the Bath Medical Museum

The Bath Medical Museum is located inside the Hetling Pump Room across the road from the main entrance to Thermae Bath Spa.

The museum is only open on Saturday afternoons, although you can also visit during one of the wellbeing sessions that are held here on Tuesday afternoons.

If you found this museum interesting, you may also want to visit the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum, the Florence Nightingale Museum, the Old Operating Theatre Museum, the Royal London Hospital Museum and the Wellcome Collection (all in London) as well as the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds.

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