Brand new exhibition ‘Healing words: The unofficial story of medical practice in England’ opens at the RCP Museum at Regent’s Park on 11 September. Join a free curator talk and visit the exhibition after hours for the first time.

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The exhibition explores the RCP’s collection of recipe books, an extraordinary resource showing how people lived in early modern England, and how healthcare functioned outside of the formal medical sphere. The books show us how medicine was understood and practiced at community level. They are glimpses into a world in which communities were self-sufficient, and people were intimately connected to one another, the land, the seasons and the cosmos. Their contents contributed to the very survival of families and communities.

We will be open from 5.30pm–8pm for visitors to drop in. A special curator’s introduction to the exhibition will be held at 6pm and 7pm on the gallery. Plus our Medicinal Garden team will be putting on a seasonal display of the kinds of ingredients that would historically be collected for medicinal recipes in autumn.

The wider museum will also be open late that evening including our Treasures Room, portrait collections, anatomical tables and Council  Chamber.

Regent's Perk café will be open for drinks throughout the evening.