Royal College of Physicians
England's oldest medical royal college with documents and books dating to its foundation in 1518.
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is England's oldest medical royal college and has a collection of objects, art, documents, and books dating back to its foundation in 1518. These collections are housed today in a 1964 grade-I listed modernist building designed by architect Denys Lasdun, best known for the National Theatre on London’s Southbank.
This guided tour will introduce visitors to Lasdun’s building, to the history and collections of the RCP, and to the new exhibition ‘A body of knowledge’, an exploration of 500 years of book collecting at the college.
Images courtesy of the Royal College of Physicians
Beeckman, Voyage to and from Borneo, 1718
FNL grant 2023
The earliest known European illustration of
an orangutan from Beeckman’s book
