Bath officials approve plans for a Frankenstein museum

Here’s something to look forward to when travel becomes freer again.

The house in Bath, England, where Mary Shelley wrote much of Frankenstein is set to become a museum.

Plans were approved to convert Bath's Abbey Churchyard into what the BBC says would be the United Kingdom’s first such site devoted to the novel.

It will also be a marked contrast to the established literary-tourism lure of Bath: the connection to Jane Austen.

Read more about what to expect from the Frankenstein museum in the BBC.

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