Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

Today was the first day of Melbourne Open House - when 75 buildings in and around Melbourne CBD are open to the public for free. We only had time for two visits this afternoon, to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Victorian Police Mounted Branch HQ. Both were fascinating. It was a bit dark in the horse centre, so here are some pics from the RACS. (There was a museum with interesting instruments etc. but there wasn't much time to look around as the guide was so interesting with his historical information and stories!).

Pics are: top left - the college mace, top right - the council chamber; bottom left - the college's grant of arms (which they lost, got a copy of, and then relocated in a bank vault!) and bottom right - carving on a cabinet donated by the widow of an important surgeon in the early 20th century

[Mike Fitzgerald]

Sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[Jennifer C]

cool! Both would have been really interesting! Great idea to have a Melbourne Open House weekend

[Shirley Chetwynd]

marvellous pics,love our golden coat of arms

[Sheralee S]

Nice collage of your visit!

[Beth]

Nice collage. That is a beautiful board room. I also like that coat of arms. It looks so appropriate for Australia.

[Kerri]

Great collage

[Dave Anajao]

Nice collage Alia!

[Janice Paine]

Nice collage - a lovely reminder of your visit to some very special places.

[Alta D©]

Interesting and very informational collage!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Great collage and info! I felt like I took the tour with you. The carving is beautiful and so is the mace. I like to take close-ups of things like that as well when I visit a place. I also like the story behind the certificate- that's pretty funny (and typical!).

[Brian Buccigrossi]

Cool collage!

[Courtney]

Very neat collage! I hope you will feel more connected to your town after this. If not, way to go trying!

[stephanie dp]

well done collage - really captures the essence.

[Lacy Kent]

Really great collage :)

[Michelle]

So interesting really fab collage, I loved looking at each of these shots.

[Terry]

great collage

[Margaret Warren]

Very interesting collage

[Juliette Packham]

cool collage and great notes too

[Pepita Liang]

Thanks for the glimpse of the interior of the buildings! Very interesting and informative details!!

[Kim]

Awesome collage! Very well done and I like the info too!

[Vicki K]

Nice collage and wonderful view of the interior of these buildings.

[Mhel]

Very cool collage!

[Allison Williams]

I've always wanted to visit Australia but I think it will never happen except through wonderful pictures like yours. What a great idea to promote tourism and local history.