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25% DISCOUNT ON OUR MEETING ROOM HIRE

Planning a business meeting for colleagues, sales team or perhaps your Board of Directors, book the space for a meeting during October and benefit from 25% discount on the room hire rate.* To arrange a tour, call our Events team on 0131 225 or email *Subject to availability

1,003 VISITORS AT DOORS OPEN DAYS

The College was positively buzzing with 1,003 visitors exploring our rooms at Doors Open Days on Sunday.  Many fascinating conversations taking place as people wandered through the rooms, expressing surprise and delight at some of our “hidden treasures”, from paintings, hints of medical symbolism and original Robert Adam features. Thank you to all who came  Read more »

A Walk Around our Historic Buildings for Doors Open Day

Curious to find out what is behind our elegant facade?  Come and explore the historic buildings of The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh for Doors Open Day and you might be rather surprised by the spaces, archticture and medical symbolism that you find.  Enter at 9 Queen Street through the building design by Thomas Hamilton and  Read more »

Busy Behind the Scenes

Traditionally while Edinburgh is full to the brim and partying at the Festival here at The Royal College of Physicians we appear a little quieter.  However behind the scenes it is hectic maintaining, upgrading and modernising our facilities while retaining our Georgian heritage. The audio visual team have been developing the College webstreaming service and without  Read more »

Warm Vintage Feel to Photography

Really like the unusual effect created in Paul Raeburn Wedding Photography to work with the lighting caused on a rainy day.  Check out Paul’s website for more of this look.

OFFERING 25% DISCOUNT ON ROOM HIRE

Considering holding a meeting, arranging a special dinner or event in July or August 2012, we are delighted to offer 25% discount on all our room hire rates (subject to availability). Explore the website rcpe-venue.co.uk and then give our Events team a call or email and we will be happy to chat  Read more »

EVENTS TEAM TAKING A BREAK FOR THE JUBILEE

Just to advise all our clients and friends that our Events team are taking a little break for the Jubliee weekend and our offices will be closed on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th June 2012.  Will be back refreshed in the office on Wednesday and look forward to helping you then.  Wishing you a relaxed  Read more »

JUBILEE CONNECTIONS

If you happen to choose to host your event at our rather special venue you might be happy to know in this significant Jubilee year that, as our marketing partners Unique Venues of Edinburgh recently highlighted, we have had the pleasure of welcoming a number of the Royal Family to our buildings on quite a few occasions.  Read more »

TECHNICAL UPGRADES TO THE GREAT HALL

We have recently completed an upgrade in the Great Hall to our lighting, system control and audio, sensitively implemented by Audio Light Systems.   Modernising our facilities but carefully preserving the historic surroundings.  http://www.avinteractive.com/news/37126/royal-college-of-physicians-of-edinburgh-completes-upgrade-of-historic-great-hall

CHANGE AT THE RCPE, WITH OUR NEW WEBSITE GOING LIVE…

Buried in the main College website the fantastic facilities at RCPE were a little lost and not really seen to their best advantage… so we developed this separate site to present the beautiful buildings as a venue. The brief was to create a modern, dynamic but elegant design, referencing  the historical setting.  The design developed by our  Read more »