The museum includes a series of models, maps, paintings and reconstructions to show how a typical Georgian house was constructed, from the ashlar stone to the decorative plasterwork.

Sections include displays of stone mining, furniture making, painting, wallpaper, soft furnishings and upholstery.

The study gallery specialises in books on architecture including the Bath Buildings Record and Coard Collection.

A slightly later panorama (1833) by Joseph William Allen (1803–1852) shows Bath from Lyncombe Hill.

[2] The building which houses the collection was built in 1765 as the Trinity Presbyterian Church and is also known as the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel.