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Sick to Death
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Immerse yourself in the gruesome, gory, and horrible history of medicine through the ages, from Greek theories to alternative remedies! Located in a beautiful Grade II listed church on Chester's medieval rows. A Big Heritage attraction. sicktodeath.org
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A meme of Marge Simpson holding a potato, below it says: I just think they're neat! Superimposed over the potato is a cut out digital sticker of a carved turnip jack o' lantern with a scary face on it.
October 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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October 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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You can find more facts about Halloween themes and medical history dotted throughout the museum if you visit this week!
A large orange pumpkin on a shelf, with small black riding l writing on it. To the left is a small carved turnip with a creepy face, small narrow eyes with cat like pupils and a grimacing mouth with lots of small teeth. It's all lit with a slightly purple light.
October 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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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:
October 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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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.
September 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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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.
A group of ten adult students, all in different clothes, men and women, wearing lanyards. They're stood posing in an area with a stone arch. In the middle of the group is a person dressed as a plague doctor and one student in wooden stocks, with rotten fruit on it, and a sign that says Sick to Death Chester.
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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that's Doctour in Phisicke Sick to you...

you just can't get the respect these days
A screenshot of the section of an e-mail, white background with black text: Dear Sick, We are pleased to advise you that t...
September 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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*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?)
An angled photograph looking up an old roof, with two main sections visible, above a sandstone wall arch, just seen on the right. The first section of the roof is dark panelled wood, with intricate carvings and gilded accents. At the base of some of the wooden arches are carvings, in both wood and stone. Beyond, is a 'newer' section of roof with large open wooden arched beams and a Tudor style timbered roof with white sections between each beam. In the far distance, just visible through the open arches, in an open arch of the bell tower is a skeletal figure in a robe.
September 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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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?
A poster graphic with a black background and a plague doctor character appearing out of the darkness, with a lit lantern raised by their beaked mask. It reads in various black and red and beige fonts: Sick[crossed out] Scared to Death! Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, October 29th, 30th, & 31st. 6:30pm – 10pm (last admission 9pm). A dark cellar, the photo has been heavily post-processed. There is a plague doctor character digging in the soil with a shovel, surrounded by candles and carved pumpkins.
September 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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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!
A poster graphic with a beige background, gothic black border, and prominent orange, black, and red Halloween imagery. All the fonts are slightly 'spooky' or 'horrible' and it reads: Sick to Death presents: Horrible Halloween. Saturday October 25th - Sunday November 2nd: Open every day 10am - 6pm, last admission 5pm. Family-friendly fun! A women dressed in tatty clothes, with a hooded cowl, is holding a dirty sponge on a stick. Beside her is a stack of carved pumpkins, the top one, being held by a rat puppet. The scenery is old wood, beams, a lantern, and an old sign that says 'Festering Flies'.
September 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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"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."
September 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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A photograph of a person dressed in a Plague Doctor costume, outside pacing on a stone floor in front of a stone arch. In the arch, backwards because of light shining through it, a sign read Sick to Death. The Plague Doctor has been captured mid-pose, face to the side, right hand slightly raised and in a cupped position. The 'is it a pigeon' anime meme has been superimposed behind the Plague Doctor, with its body and hand alighted behind the Plague Doctor's and the yellow butterfly is up and to the left. In big black text on white at the bottom it says, is this history. Above the plague doctor smaller it says, us. Above the butterfly it says, even smaller, an anachronistic costume that has somehow become the core of our brand identity
September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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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 photo of a person dressed in a Plague Doctor costume. They are stood an area with a stone floor and stone pillars, outside, over the sky to their left there is a logo: in red bold text that says Sick to Death, with a small stylised skull logo in beige. Beneath is the tagline: The gory story of medicine through time, in black. To their right is a red circle that says School trips! They are leaning forward, looking at the camera, while they use a pointer to point at a blackboard being held by a young girl with blonde hair in a ponytail, pink glasses, a pink jumper, and blue trainers with white frilly socks. Most of her body is covered by the large blackboard with a wooden frame. On the black board in chalk it says: Plague was [in green] GOOD for business but also [inserted after the fact] ^ very [in red] BAD for people! A flyer style poster in mostly beige, red, and black. There's a large logo at the top: in red bold text that says Sick to Death, with a small stylised skull logo in beige. Beneath is the tagline: The gory story of medicine through time, in black. To the lower right of the logo is a red circle that says School trips! On the left, the main focus after the logo, there's a cut-out photo of a person dressed in a Plague Doctor costume holding up a blackboard and pointing to it with a pointer. On the blackboard, in typed front it reads: Bring the history of medicine to life! With a fully immersive and interactive experience, Sick to Death is a great destination for students and classes studying the history of medicine! Below are three bullet-points, with the little skull icons in black as the points: Located in a historic church on the medieval Rows of Chester, Hands-on learning to engage all age groups, Covers GCSE curriculum topics across exams boards. In beige text on black a the bottom: For more information: www.sicktodeath.org/school-visits
September 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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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...
A black poster graphic with red and beige text that reads: Sick to Death (with a little stylised skull logo) will be closed on Friday Sept 5th for essential maintenance.
August 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Sick to Death visitors really are a special bunch! Thanks for the laugh, whoever created this masterpiece. 😄
A slightly worn magnetic blackboard with a set of human skeleton magnets, made up of different sections of bones. Someone has made a skeleton standing on its hands, upside down, legs bent at the knees like a squat, and the hands and feet have been swapped.
August 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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what are the chances this would work? our poor foot
The 'you wouldn't steal a car meme' from DVDs, a mostly black background with scratchy cross-fade digital artifacts across the bottom left. In white 'janky' capital letters it reads: you wouldn't touch a real gangrenous foot
August 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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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... ☢️
An open cupboard door that on the left has a photograph of an enlarged brown medicine bottle labelled Radithor. On the right is an information board about Radioactive Treatments, that describes the history of Radithor and its ill effects. Being held up in between the two panels is a can of monster energy, by someone with green nail varnish.
July 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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true fact
May 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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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. 🖤

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May 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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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.
The front page of a scientific journal paper, with a large red RETRACTED text stamped across the front. The paper is tidied Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-surveys colitis and pervasive developmental disorder in children. The lead author is A J Wakefield.
May 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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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!
Two men dressed in Roman garb one a soldier, one in a toga, performing a mock procedure on a skull, in front of a table with lots of ancient brass instruments.
May 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Here's a photo that one of our staff took of a frame of honeycomb (and honeybees) and we think it looks really pretty. Technically, they're the patron saint of bee*keeper*s (St Valentine, not our staff member).
A frame of honeycomb from a beehive, all of the little hexagons are filled with different colours of wax, pollen, and honey, and little larvae. There are honeybees on the frame too, with one right in the middle.
May 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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anyone else feel like they're constantly being hovered over at work?
May 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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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.)
April 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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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...
A green foam apple, like a Granny Smith, on a wooden countertop, with a bite completely taken out of it, the piece bitten out now sitting beside it.
April 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM