There has been a covered porch at the front of St Michael's church for hundreds of years, first wooden and then stone. While it's likely that a stone church was first built on this site in the 1100s, >

if you carve a turnip let us know

Here at Sick to Death we always like to give a (horrifying) nod to history with our seasonal displays! There are many holidays at this time of year that have similar themes of remembering the dead, and the veil between the living and the dead being thinner:

The alignment of Halloween with the October half-term is truly a gift. If you're looking for days out during the holidays next month, come explore our weird little medical history attraction! We'll be adding extra strange, spooky, and silly touches to the experience for our favourite season.

We've been having a great time with groups of new @uochester.bsky.social nursing students visiting us all day today! Wishing you all the best on your studies ahead... but may your bedside manner be better than Plaguey D's.

guys we finally have an idea for Halloween costume for Plaguey D

that's Doctour in Phisicke Sick to you... you just can't get the respect these days

*slaps roof of church* take a look at this bad boy, still got it's original 15th century north arcade and chancel, hardly ever leaks (We heard we're taking photos of nice old rooves?)

This Halloween, Sick To Death becomes SCARED To Death with late night openings! We invite you to explore the gory story of medicine by lantern light as you are stalked around our historic church by perilous plague victims and barbaric barbers! Will you survive the night and all it has to offer?

Our favourite time of year is almost here! Get excited for some spooky family fun this Halloween half-term at Sick to Death! Join us during the day-time for thrills that everyone can enjoy, as you explore the gory story of medicine. Bring your weird morbid little children! We know you have them!

Our passion for the spooky season cannot be contained! Join us next month at @chesterscibar.bsky.social for an entertaining talk about Halloween creatures, medical myths, and supernatural skeletons!

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away!" Did you know the first written record of this saying is from 1886? It was noted as proverb from Pembrokeshire and originally it was said: "Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread."

Teachers! Looking for school trips to help bring history to life for your students this year? We've put together a brand new webpage with everything you'll need for a trip to Sick to Death. *Don't worry, Plaguey D might be there, but we'll leave the teaching to you...* sicktodeath.org/school-visits/

Teachers! Looking for school trips to help bring history to life for your students this year? We've put together a brand new webpage with everything you'll need for a trip to Sick to Death. *Don't worry, Plaguey D might be there, but we'll leave the teaching to you...* sicktodeath.org/school-visits/

A reminder that next week, on Friday Sept 5th, we will be closed for the day! We need some time to clear out all of the real cobwebs so we have somewhere to put up fake cobwebs in a few weeks...

That's right. We actually do some legitimate history stuff too, it's not all just goofs and gags.

Sick to Death visitors really are a special bunch! Thanks for the laugh, whoever created this masterpiece. 😄

what are the chances this would work? our poor foot

The summer holiday crowds have our staff reaching for energy drinks! Caffeine is known to have both positive and negative health effects. But at least it's not as bad for you as drinking radium! A popular ingredient in early 20th century 'energising' drinks, like Radithor. Maybe stick to coffee... ☢️

we really want to hang out and post more, but honestly... we're just too dang busy people just love a good hot goth summer destination

But they clearly would have won if the challenge was: name the best interactive hands-on history of medicine heritage attraction in Chester that's located in a Grade II listed church on the medieval rows. We'll get in touch with Challenge Point about changing the challenges they have on offer...

true fact

you know what would look really good on this year's mosaic @devaroman.bsky.social? a certain stylised skull. just sayin'...

We caught Plaguey D getting into spirit of things at the @heritagechester.bsky.social launch event! We always suspected they weren't 100% doom and gloom. 🖤 @devaroman.bsky.social

In this time of increasing preventable disease outbreaks and anti-vaccination propaganda, how are you celebrating #AndrewWakefieldStruckOffDay? 15 years ago today the GMC struck Andrew Wakefield off the medical register, in part for deliberately falsifying information in a now retracted publication.

Our Roman physician, Oligarchus, from @devaroman.bsky.social is outside Sick to Death today giving demonstrations on ancient Roman medicine for @chesterherifest.bsky.social! Come learn how the Romans treated diseases and injuries and decide if you could have handled a visit to a Roman doctor!

Happy St Valentine's Day! sorry we just like to take any chance to remind people that Saint Valentine is also the patron saint of the plague and bees and since today is World Bee Day...

anyone else feel like they're constantly being hovered over at work?

May 1st: reading our copy of A Boke or Counseill Against the Disease Commonly Called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse by doctour in phisicke John Caius, because seriously this amount of perspiration cannot be normal

us, in our Grade II listed church: Apr 28th: turn the space heater on will you, it's absolutely freezing in here Apr 29th: ooh, it's so nice in here, don't you just *love* historic buildings? Apr 30th: ugh, did the English sweating sickness return or something, gross, it's so hot in here

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

We see you. We appreciate you. 🫡 (You might not believe us, but this video was already scheduled to go up *before* yesterday's apple incident! We've just updated the description.) We're a #HandsOnMuseum *NOT* a #MouthsOnMuseum! (We can't believe we even had to type that, it's so gross.)

The Easter crowds have arrived. And they clearly haven't learned anything about germs and putting your mouth on things that approx 857 people have touched with their disgusting hands just this morning...

Did you know we're located in a stunning Grade II listed church? Sometimes we forget that's unique! While most of what you see today is from the Victorian restoration by architect James Harrison (like our angel here), there has been in church in this location since at least the 12th century.

We're tempted to just paint a big red X on the door when it gets to be too much. But then again, we do really enjoy grossing people out with medical history facts, so...

It's here.

We're still here! We're just very, very busy at the moment. We know you know how it is. We've finished Step 5 by the way. Not sure when we'll have time for Step 6 though. There's probably nothing really that important in the last step of the social media consultation process, right?

Our staff when they see the end of term approaching.

We've just had our 500th review on Tripadvisor! We're ranked #4 of the top ten things to do in Chester, which isn't bad if you're competing against elephants, an epic cathedral, and well... *walls*. (People really like walls for some reason. You know they're just rocks stacked on top of more rocks?)

going to pitch updating our tagline at the next staff meeting

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away!" NOT IF IT'S MADE OF FOAM KYLE

why are people

good news, we just finished Step 4

brb, just going to make a list of our favourite unaccredited museums you can make a 'best of' list with 700 things on it, right

Paul just left us an amazing review! The only problem is, we read through the entire thing and he doesn't mention us even once. Shame, because Paul's an awesome photographer! We found our next profile pic. It's everything we've ever wanted. (We let Chester Zoo know that a review has escaped.)

This post may be NSFW. But it really does depend on what you do for work. We're all good here.

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