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The Royal College of Physicians museum, heritage library, archive & garden in Regent's Park | History, medicine, art & modernist architecture | Exhibitions & events

An image of a white building with 3 floors, the top floor is lined with slit windows and a white box shaped room jutting out of the side over the green garden. Overlaid are the words: Summer works - We will be CLOSED to drop in visits from Monday 3 August REOPENING Wednesday 2 September
An image of a collection of flyers and leaflets relating to HIV and AIDS with text over the top saying 'Help preserve the history of HIV/AIDS care'.
A groups of books, flyers and leaflets about HIV through the years.
Sepia toned oval photograph portrait of a woman, looking slightly to the left. What is visible of her clothing appears to be a pale blouse under pleated fabric over her right shoulder.
A video showing people tasting teas, jars of dried herbs and people mixing tea blends. There is no speech.
Two pages of an early printed book with mathematical diagrams and diagrammatical annotations in the margin. Andreas Alexander, Mathemalogium (1504). Annotated by John Dee
Engraved portrait of a man with a white pointed beard, wearing a skull cap, a 16th century ruff, and an academic gown. John Dee, engraved by R Cooper, c1800
A man dressed in black with short grey hair and glasses stands in front of a large leafy green plant, smiling at the camera.
An Indian woman in three quarter profile, looking to the left and resting her head against her hand. Beneath her, her signature: Kadambini Ganguli.
A collection of plants, bottles and recipe books gathered together.
A video showing the making of chocolate discs with spices. There are labels on the video and no spoken audio.
View of the front of the RCP building.
Adult female arterial and nervous system laid out on a wooden panel.
A close up section of the dissected male nervous system in one of the anatomical tables.
A view of the anatomical tables in frames hanging on the wall of the RCP.
Visitors looking at rare books in the Dorchester Library.
Illustration of St George on horseback and the dragon as constructions made to set off fireworks. In John Babington, Pyrotechnia or, A discourse of artificiall fire-works, published 1635
A graphic advertising the workshop with the dates (shared in post) and images of 4 South Asian Women doctors.
Visitors explore rare books in the Dorchester
Photograph of the side view of the building showing striking brutalist architecture.
An open book showing a circular astronomical volvelle.
Talk cover slide titled: Moving Libraries - from the personal to the institutional
A video showing a mix of images of children exploring the garden and making books.
Discovery of Pulmonary Circulation paper before conservation with torn and ragged edges and after conservation properly supported.
Pages from a personal account book repurposed as a diary. Handwritten entries in black and red ink, dated December 1847 to January 1848.
A video showing people exploring the garden and books on dispaly
Typewritten pages of text detailing the 'census resistance party' Mabel Ramsay attended with fellow women campaigners for suffrage.
A legal document detailing the case of Elizabeth Pratt with handwritten ink text and Elizabeth Pratt's signature at the bottom.
A design graphic with the exhibition title 'A body of knowledge Discover 500 years of book collecting at the Royal College of Physicians 10 September 2025 - 23 July 2026 Exhibition Free' The text is on a background of marbled paper and pages from books.
Close up of the handwritten text by Hamey describing the 'lohoch of fox lungs’.
Open page of Hamey's Pharmacopeia Londinensis with printed text on the right and handwritten notes on the left.
The white sculpted 17th century bust (head and shoulders) of Baldwin Hamey Junior by artist Edward Pierce. He is shown with a small pointy beard and long curly hair. He is wearing a hat with a wide brim and large puffy top.
Printed diagrams of eyes with labels and captions in Chinese.
Front view of the Alexander Fleming bust by Frank Kovacs with the plaque.
Side view of the Alexander Fleming bust by Frank Kovacs while a conservator applies wax.
Top of a paper report on a Bryant and May factory in 1857.
Several papers showing the appointment of Alfred Swaine Taylor to inspect the Bryant and May factory and his subsequent report.
Miniature portrait of Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806-1880) by an unknown artist. Showing a white man with greying hair and a bushy grey beard wearing a black jacket.
Black and white illustrations of 'boxes for conveying Plants by Sea'. There are four images, 'A box with plants shut down with the opening at ends and front left for fresh air' 'The cask for sewing seeds with the openings defended by wire' 'The inside of the box showing the manner of securing the roots of the plants surrounded with earth and moss tied with packthread and fastened cross and cross with laths or packthread to keep them steady' 'The box with divisions for sewing different seeds in earth and cut moss.'
Colour illustration of tea plant - camelia sesangua - with dark green leaves, with finely serrated edges and white flowers.
Extract from Lettsom's book: 'Some complain that after a Tea breakfast, they find themselves rather fluttered ; their hands less steady in writing, or any other employment that requires an exact command of spirits. This probably soon goes off, and they feel no other injury from it. Others again bear it well in the morning, but from drinking it in the afternoon, find themselves very easily agitated, and affected with a kind of involuntary trembling.'
A colour illustration of a green tea plant with multiple longish green leaves, with finely serrated edges and white flowers.
Title page of 'The Natural History of the Tea-Tree wit hobservations on the medical qualities of tea and on the effects of tea-drinking.' By John Coakley Lettsom, 1799
A group of people exploring the garden of medicinal plants with a garden guide
Portrait of Christopher Merrett, by George Perfect Harding, after an unknown artist. The image shows a white man with long curly light brown hair wearing an orange robe with a white necktie.
Black and white photo of the lead coffin of William Harvey with lead face and inscription on the chest.
An oil painting showing William Harvey holding the heart of deer in a cloth in his hands pointing with a scalpel to show it to King Charles I while a young boy watches.
Close up of the face of William Harvey in an oil painting from his later years with grey shoulder length hair and a van dyke style beard.
The catalogue of books donated by William Harvey.
An oil painting of William Harvey. A white man with grey hair and a van dyke beard. He is wearing a black robe with the sleeves visible of an orange shirt underneath.
Our collections officer getting the silver punch bowl out for College Day 2026.
The founding charter of the Royal college of Physicians with the seal of Henry VIII at the bottom.
A shelf of books of a variety of shapes and sizes that once belonged to John Dee and are now in the RCP Heritage Library. Photo by John Chase
Black and white print of a drawing of John Dee shown as a white man with long pointed beard, wearing an Elizabethan jacket, ruff and skull cap. Beneath the image is the text: 'Dr John Dee From an original picture in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford.'
A sepia tone photo of Sujata Chaudri. Showing an Indian woman with her dark hair worn back and a decorative sari wrapped over her left shoulder.
A huge book is being held up by a person whose top half isn't visible behind the book.
An open medicine chest full of glass bottles. In front of the chest are more bottles, a medical textbook, a feeding cup, and a glass mortar and pestle.
The video shows an array of images of visitors in the Dorchester Library closely examining and handling rare books and using paper crafts to create keepsake books. There is no speech but a few visitor comments are included as captions.
A view of the Dorchester Library showing a huge number of books on shelves making the walls around the edge of a large room with occasional portraits hung on wooden walls in between the shelves.