Learn about medicinal plants at the Chelsea Physic Garden
Chelsea Physic Garden
May 9-2019 £11 / £7.50

Learn about medicinal plants at the Chelsea Physic Garden

Spend Thursday learning about medicinal plants at the Chelsea Physic Garden. Tucked away beside the Thames, Chelsea Physic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in London and houses around 5,000 different medicinal, herbal, edible, and useful plants.

Join a special behind-the-scenes tour of the British Red Cross Museum and Archives
British Red Cross Museum
May 9-2019 Free

Join a special behind-the-scenes tour of the British Red Cross Museum and Archives

The British Red Cross museum and archive collections explore the entire history of the organisation’s humanitarian and medical work from 1870 to the present. They are currently only accessible to the public via special ‘behind-the-scenes’ tours of the collections store.

View the highlights of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum and Library
Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum and Library
May 9-2019 Free

View the highlights of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum and Library

Get a unique insight into the history of British pharmacy with this guided tour of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum. Led by museum staff you’ll see artefacts and hear pharmaceutical progress from the 1400s up to the present day.

Get hands-on with the Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Surgeons and British Dental Association
Anaesthesia Heritage Centre
May 9-2019 Free

Get hands-on with the Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Surgeons and British Dental Association

The Anaesthesia Heritage Centre is hosting a day of hands-on workshops for GCSE school groups interested in careers in medicine and healthcare in partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons and the British Dental Association.

Learn the story of Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin
Alexander Fleming Museum
May 9-2019 £4 / £2

Learn the story of Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin

Take a journey back in time to the days when there were no antibiotics to fight often lethal bacteria and then follow in the footsteps of Alexander Fleming on his road to the discovery that was to revolutionize medicine and affect the lives of every one of us.