Inevitably there had to be considerable guesswork when reconstructing the historic interiors because there are only a handful of contemporary illustrations of rooms in 18th century British hospitals and these are mostly of wards. None exist for the Bath hospital’s interiors and even John Wood’s original plans were changed during the building’s construction and the rooms were repurposed several times in the early years. The interiors are therefore largely conjectural, but represent what is known to have been present in the hospital in the mid 18th century.

Visitors can enter the Georgian hospital through the original front door and will find themselves in the vestibule which leads onto the corridors and the various rooms. The rooms and wards can be navigated in 360°. It is possible to click on ‘hotspots’ in the rooms, which will open links to associated artefacts in the museum’s collection or descriptive text. Some rooms also have a speaker icon which opens an imagined audio recording of a staff member working in the hospital in its early years. The characters are spoken by actors but their dialogue is based on descriptions found in the records of the hospital and give an idea of what life was like there in the 1740s.