Years ago, when the Bach Centre Team was bigger and we needed to occupy all the old bedrooms upstairs as offices, and the old kitchen as a shop, visitors to Mount Vernon only had access to the two rooms downstairs – the sitting room and Dr. Bach’s consulting room. Nonetheless, all were happy to see where Dr. Bach lived, sit on his hand-made chairs in his study, and see some of his original tinctures and a few other items of interest in the cabinets.
Over the last ten years or so, the old bedrooms have, one by one, been transformed into museum rooms. It has taken a long time and a great deal of careful thought and planning to exhibit the historical items that have been stored away in our archives – not because we wanted to hide them, but simply because we had no room to display them!
Those who have visited Mount Vernon in more recent years will have seen Museum Room One – upstairs on the left – and, fast forward a few more years, Museum Room Two – upstairs on the right. Now that we are a smaller team of only three, Project Museum Room Three – upstairs at the back – is on its way. The Project began over a year ago, but after a great deal of planning and thinking, re-thinking and re-planning, visitors to Mount Vernon will soon have a much more complete and interesting experience. They will have a chance to read first hand Dr. Bach’s writings, original correspondence, stories and letters, along with photographs of then and now, and a short film depicting some of the Bach Centre’s history. It will be much more insightful into how the Bach Centre has been managed and nurtured through its closely knit successive generations since Dr. Bach’s passing in 1936.
It’s still ‘work in progress’ but by the Spring of 2025, all the Rooms will be finished and the Bach Centre will truly be a ‘Living Museum’.