Visit the Royal College of Physicians museum

Next to Regent’s Park is an imposing modernist building, and in its basement, is a large room full of medical instruments that is also open to the public. This is the museum of the Royal College of Physicians and exists thanks to a large donation from a private collection amassed by Cecil Symons in the 1990s.The modernist building it is in was built in 1962 to a design by Sir Denis Lasdun, but originally without a dedicated museum. That was added in 1998, to a design also by Lasdun, after