Past Exhibitions

Live dissections, breathlessness, a city engulfed in firestorm and the man who placed the heart at the centre of human existence. Our museum, archive and rare book collections tell the story of medicine past and present.

2023 exhibitions

Unfamiliar

23 January 2023 -
28 July 2023

2022 exhibitions

Selfless

19 May 2022 -
30 September 2022

A taste of one's own medicine: medical satire at the Royal College of Physicians

4 May 2022 -
2 December 2022

RCP Unseen

18 January 2021 -
1 April 2022

2020 exhibitions

Under the skin: anatomy, art and identity

10 October 2019 -
31 December 2020

2019 exhibitions

Under the skin: illustrating the human body

1 February 2018 -
15 March 2019

Catch your breath

2 April 2019 -
20 September 2019

This vexed question: 500 years of women in medicine

19 August 2018 -
31 January 2019

2018 exhibitions

Ceaseless motion: William Harvey’s experimentations in circulation

19 January 2018 -
26 July 2018

2017 exhibitions

A cabinet of rarities: the curious collection of Sir Thomas Browne

30 January 2017 -
30 July 2017

2016 exhibitions

To fetch out the fire: reviving London, 1666

1 September 2016 -
16 December 2016

Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee

18 January 2016 -
29 July 2016

2015 exhibitions

The anatomy of a building: Denys Lasdun and the Royal College of Physicians

8 September 2014 -
13 February 2015

Power and beauty: seals, charters and the story of identity

1 September 2015 -
23 December 2015

2014 exhibitions

This bewitching poison: alcohol and the Royal College of Physicians

13 January 2014 -
27 June 2014

2013 exhibitions

The mirror of health: discovering medicine in the golden age of Islam

1 May 2013 -
25 October 2013

2012 exhibitions

Curious anatomy's: an extraordinary story of dissection and discovery

27 April 2012 -
26 October 2012

2011 exhibitions

Reframing disability: portraits from the Royal College of Physicians

14 February 2011 -
8 July 2011