Open Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm
Visit Us
Address: 16 Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN
Accessibility
Our 1st floor rooms & toilet facilities have step-free access via lift. Please ring bell at entrance for assistance
There is currently no step-free access to the ground floor exhibition space
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution is a cultural hub promoting science, literature and artistic knowledge through a wide range of community based activities.
From our Georgian building in Bath’s Queen Square you can watch talks on a wide range of topics, attend workshops and enjoy exhibitions. If you are looking for a place to hold a meeting or event we also hire 4 rooms with space for 5 to 100 people.
Though we only have space to publicly exhibit a small fraction, the Institution cares for a treasure trove of natural history artefacts, with items spanning archaeology, ethnology, zoology, mineralogy, botany and palaeontology. You can learn more about the Collection here.
Among our permanent displays (free to visitors) is the first extra-terrestrial object collected and described on Earth: a piece of a 4.2 billion-year-old meteorite collected in Siberia in 1779.
Exhibits on permanent display are linked to our Bath Discovery Trails guided walks app. Follow 4 different trails to discover little known aspects of the city and its history. You can access the app via our Bath discovery trails page.