Thank you to everyone who joined the RCP Garden & Museum teams for a lovely evening of tea tasting & making last night!
A beautiful final event of 2025 with a lovely group. 🍵😋
We look forward to sharing more lovely events with you all in 2026!
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Today Mary Goodson's book is one of many in the RCP collections now viewable online at the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/rcpl... & still on display in exhibition ‘Healing words’ until 25 July 2025.
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A woman and boy holding up the pomanders they made from patterned cloth.
A museum team member leans over to smell a mortar full of crushed herbs while a young girl sews a pink cloth into a pomander.
A Gardener gestures and holds out a recipe to a young boy in the garden while other children explore the garden in the background.
A boy and mother sew cloth together for their pomanders.
Thank you to everyone who joined us at yesterday's 'Plants & potions' workshop at the RCP.
We were delighted to work with the fabulous RCP garden team & the @oldoptheatre.bsky.social to welcome a group of enthusiastic families for fun, games & crafts.
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We were delighted to work with you! Such a fun event, great families taking part.
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St John's Wort -- a plant with bright yellow five-petalled flowers in front of a mass of bright green feathery foliage.
Dark pink peony flower. A soft-petalled flower bud partially open so that the petals still curve gently inwards in a soft ball. The centre of the flower is obscured. It looks very inviting.
Event advert: RCP Museum Lates, healing words in the RCP garden, Thursday 1 May, 5.30-8pm. Free entry.
Discover the fascinating worlds of plant medicine & hand-written recipe books with the @RCPhysicians Garden & Museum teams on 1 May:
⭐️expert Garden tours
⭐️exhibition tours
⭐️Garden trail
Book free👉 royal-college-of-physicians.arttickets.org.uk
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A graphic design showing an illustration of a plant with purple berries and green leaves to the right side framed by a blue backdrop with these words on it: RCP museum Lates Healing words: healing plants Thursday 3 April | 5.30-8pm Exhibitions| Museum collections | Art | Architecture In the top right corner is a sign saying 'Free entry'
Join our Museum Late to celebrate the launch of new self-guided garden trail, ‘Healing plants’, inspired by the ‘Healing words’ exhibition.
📆3 April 🕠5.30-8pm
Try out the trail & exhibition tours at 6pm & 7pm.
Book free👉 royal-college-of-physicians.arttickets.org.uk
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Paper cover of an 18th century recipe book. Sellotape can be seen at the corners and there is a bit of ink handwriting on the front including the name Mary Finch and date 1711.
Cover of a bound recipe book with Sellotape along the spine and some detailed patterns stamped into the cover creating two rectangles inside each other with a leaf at each corner.
A member of the public learned of our exhibition, Healing Words, & very kindly donated to us two handwritten recipe books she had received from her grandmother, & which had been in her family for generations!
👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/...
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In the foreground a woman draws at a table. There are plants, cones, medical instruments, pens, pencils, a lamp and a cup on the table. On the right another woman is taking a photo of her own drawing on her phone. In the background are other people drawing at another table.
Wed 23 April we are excited to be joined by @LondonDrawing for a special evening of botanical drawing & painting with artist, Sisetta Zappone using the Medicinal Garden & current exhibition Healing Words as inspiration.
Book👉 tinyurl.com/y8sur3p8
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A graphic design showing an illustration of a plant with purple berries and green leaves to the right side framed by a blue backdrop with these words on it: RCP museum Lates Healing words: healing plants Thursday 3 April | 5.30-8pm Exhibitions| Museum collections | Art | Architecture In the top right corner is a sign saying 'Free entry'
Thursday 3 April we open for our Museum Late, 5.30pm - 8pm. Join us to celebrate the launch of new garden trail, ‘Healing plants’, inspired by the ‘Healing words’ exhibition.
Register free👉 tinyurl.com/4fe38t68
#RCPhealingRecipes #HistMed
Three images. On the left a group of people listen to a tour guide in front of an old painting in the RCP. Centre and group of plants. Right twigs, leaves, an orange, a cone and a metal bleeding bowl arranged in a display on a table.
Looking forward to our upcoming events in April - join a tour, try out the new Medicinal Garden trail at our Museum Late or book onto our special botanical drawing workshop!
More details & how to book below 👇
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