No.1 Royal Crescent in Bath is set to celebrate in extravagant Georgian style this Christmas, with residents invited to head along to enjoy a new immersive audio-visual tour.
Photo © Tim Beale
From the dining room table stacked with sugar sculptures and decadent puddings, to the highly-scented dried oranges hanging in the Servants Hall, visitors are in for a real festive treat.
No.1 Royal Crescent will be decorated with traditional foliage such as bay, yew and herbs, and gilded fruits and foodstuffs.
The museum will replace its usual “Georgians at Home” immersive audio-visual tour with a special “12 Tales of a Georgian Christmas” tour which invites visitors to experience Christmas as it would have been celebrated over 200 hundred years ago.
A Christmas mouse trail will run alongside the tour for families, and, once they’ve finished, children can have a go at making their own masquerade masks.
Photo © Tim Beale
The museum offers children free entry when accompanied by a paying adult.
Patrizia Ribul, Director of Museums at Bath Preservation Trust (BPT), said: “No-one over-indulged like wealthy Georgians did, and Christmas-time particularly highlights this – one only has to look at our dining room table with its array of various festive confectionary to understand how extravagantly Georgians would have celebrated.
“Visitors to the museum today can enjoy a special immersive Christmas story-telling playing in each room of the festively-decorated house, along with a children’s mouse hunt and creative activities.
“Meeting Father Christmas is a Bath Christmas highlight in our festively-dressed museum.
“My favourite element of the Christmas décor is the unexpected Christmassy aromas – particularly in the Kitchen and the Servants’ Hall.”
The festive decorations will extend outside the Georgian house to the locally sourced Christmas tree, which has been sponsored for a second year by Hawker Joinery.
