This summer feed your curious mind with one of the free activities taking place at the Physicians’ Gallery at The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Upcoming sessions include:
- Drop-in Activity: Brain Lab (07 July 2026). Led by scientists from the University of Edinburgh Montagne Lab, part of the UK Dementia Research Institute, explore how the brain works, what it’s made of, and how it changes in conditions such as dementia.
- Drop-in Activity: Brilliant Brains (13 July 2026). Come and learn about your brain, what it looks like, how it works and why it’s so important. Get involved and decorate your own anatomical brain. Will it be anatomically accurate, or a multi-coloured work of art?
- Drop-in Activity: What does a doctor look like? (21 July 2026). What do you think a doctor looks like? They look just like you! Join this crafty activity day which celebrates diversity within the medical community. Explore how doctors and other medical professionals come from every type of background and culture, and that anyone can be a doctor.
- Drop-in Activity: How you were made (23 July 2026). Discover how you were made when a sperm from your father got together with an egg from your mother. Find out how the new, barely visible you first sought out the protection of your mother’s womb. Discover how, with her nourishment, you grew bigger and performed some spectacular contortions, turning you into a little person ready to be born.
Physicians’ Gallery Drop-in Activities run from 11am to 2pm on all days and are ages are welcome. As well as these activities, the Physicians’ Gallery has a children’s medical library with colouring-in, worksheets and a dressing-up station available every day.
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh is on Queen Street in the city centre. Several of Lothian Buses routes serve the area on a regular basis. The nearest Edinburgh Trams stop is St Andrew Square.
