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New Events for 2016

22 March 2016

We are excited to be announcing our new events for 2016. We are delighted to be hosting partnership talks with The Scottish Parliament, firstly with Christine Short on Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Women's Hospital, and then with Professor Ken Donaldson on Battlefield Pathology in the First World War. We're teaming up with Edinburgh Napier Univ…

Digital modelling of human skull from Culloden

16 March 2016

As the 270th anniversary of the fateful Battle of Culloden approaches, archaeologists from conservation charity the National Trust for Scotland have joined with The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh to apply the latest technology to one of its unfortunate victims. The top section of a skull of what is thought to be someone who met their demis…

Nicolson Street Incident 26th January 2015

26 January 2016

There has been an incident of falling masonry on Nicolson Street this morning, and as such the Nicolson Street entrance to the Museums is closed. Those wishing to visit the Museums can do so by going along Drummond Street, turning right to Roxburgh Place and then turning right on Hill Place and into Hill Square.If you need to contact the Museums pl…

Museum Christmas Closure

11 December 2015

Surgeons' Hall Museums will be closed over the Christmas and New Year period from 5pm on the 23rd December to the 4th of January.The Museums will reopen in 2016 at 10am on the 5th January.

Be Healthwise This Winter

26 November 2015

NHS 24 launched their winter health campaign today (26 November 2015) with Shona Robison MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing and John McAnaw, NHS 24’s Head of Pharmacy at RCSEd's Surgeons' Hall Museums. Be Heathwise This Winter uses Dr Owl to raise awareness of the simple steps the public can take to manage winter illnesses and advises…

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