Buildings

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

Address: 250 - 290 Spring Street, East Melbourne

What's Open: The tour includes the grand main foyer, the historically significant medical library, the fascinating surgical museum, the beautiful Hailes room and the large council room. The tour showcases the building’s architecture, surgical instruments from the 19th and 20th centuries, impressive portrait collection, furniture, ceramics and the college mace. The tour guides will share their extensive knowledge on early medical techniques and will explain (in sometimes bloody and confronting detail) how some of the surgical instruments were used.

Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm - Saturday and Sunday

Frequency Of Tours: Every 45 minutes (last tour of the day commences at 3.15pm)

Special Note:

Building Type: Educational Buildings - College

Web: www.surgeons.org

Architect: Leighton Irwin, Irwin & Stevenson (original building) Jackson Architecture (2004 East wing)

Tram Stops: Stop 10: Albert Street and Nicholson Street on routes 86, 95 and 96

Hear about early medical techniques and old instruments in the fascinating surgical museum.