World-first attraction dedicated to author Mary Shelley opens 19 July 2021

● A world-first visitor experience, Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein, will
commemorate the life of the female novelist and her now legendary creation
in its own attraction for the very first time, from 19 July 2021.
● Opening in Bath, where the author wrote much of the novel in 1816 – retrace
her tragic and often untold life events and confront the 8ft formidable
Creature as Mary really imagined, with a world-first recreation forming the
centrepiece of the attraction.
● Newly Announced: For a truly immersive experience, each room in the
attraction will feature bespoke scents to heighten the senses, along with a
walk-through experience in the dank and foreboding underbelly of the
house.
● Coming Soon: Victor’s Lair Escape Room can be purchased separately.
You have just one hour to unravel the ramblings of his deranged mind and,
more critically, your way out to freedom.
● Book tickets now: houseoffrankenstein.com

New Bath attraction, Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein, opens its doors on
Monday 19 July 2021. The attraction will commemorate the author’s life for the very
first time in its own attraction, over 205 years since she put pen to paper to write the
now legendary novel.

The much-anticipated new visitor experience will tell the full story behind the genesis
of ‘Frankenstein’. Blurring the lines between museum and immersive experience, the
attraction will celebrate the legacy of Mary’s work across four atmospheric floors,
uncovering:
• Mary Shelley’s complex past - retrace the tragic life events and radical
scientific thinking that fermented in Mary’s imagination before her trip to the
Villa Diodati near Geneva, where she conjured the first fragments of her
monstrous creation in her infamous ‘waking dream’ - and discover unknown
facts, like how Mary and her husband Percy Shelley were vegetarians!
• The monster as Mary imagined – confront the formidable 8ft breathing
creature in a world-first recreation exactly as Mary imagined in her novel.
• Frankenstein in popular culture – experience all things Frankenstein and his
“monster” in the Popular Culture rooms bursting with vintage memorabilia,
props, posters, and bizarre collector items.
• A dank foreboding basement – venture down into the dank foreboding
basement, in a dark and disorientating walkthrough experience revealing the
unhallowed practices of a deranged scientist.

Newly Announced: Scents of Mary Shelley's House of Frankenstein
• A bespoke scent will capture the atmosphere of every room – from the
Popular Culture rooms to The Laboratory to heighten your experience, and
create a sense of time, place and emotional context to create long lasting
memories of your visit. In the Popular Culture rooms, notes of cinemas,
popular culture and childhood nostalgia are conjured with gourmand notes
of popcorn, vanilla, caramel, chocolate with an undertone of plastic and
playdoh!
• Themed gift shop - Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein has teamed up with
local suppliers, like Bath’s very own ‘Planty Kate’, to create candles that
capture the essence of the attraction’s central characters, Mary Shelley and
her beloved husband, Percy Shelley. With Mary dark and brooding, and Percy
a radical poet with a lust for life, can you guess what kind of scents they’ll be?
Products will be displayed in and amongst body parts in jars, to keep you
guessing which ones are for sale.

Coming Soon: Escape Room Tickets
Soon to be announced – dare to venture up to Victor’s miserable attic quarters
strewn with insane equations, strange artefacts and miscellaneous body parts.
Trying in vain to unlock the mysteries of life itself, he needs just a few more ‘vital’
components to fulfil his maniacal quest. This 14 challenge puzzle-based quest is
suitable for families with slightly older children, friends and groups. You will have just
one hour to unravel the ramblings of a madman and discover the equation that
may reveal the mystery of life itself, but more critically, your way out to freedom.

What to Expect
Featuring ominous music and unsettling soundscapes, temperature control, aromas,
lighting and special effects, electric shocks, projections, props, unusual artefacts,
and vintage items throughout, Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein aims to deliver a
scarily immersive, unnervingly thrilling and visceral experience.

The permanent attraction will add to the cultural fabric of the gothic city of Bath
and is a must on the itinerary to Bath this summer.

Franken-fans can book their tickets now to visit from 19 July 2021 at:
www.houseoffrankenstein.com