Simon Chaplin

Director of Museums & Special Collections, The Royal College of Surgeons of England

The Royal College of Surgeons of England

35-42 Lincoln’s Inn Field

London WC2A 3PE

Ph: 020 7869 6570

schaplin[at]rcseng.ac.uk

Theme:

Career summary

1992-1998, Science Museum, Associate Curator/Manager of MGC PRISM. Fund.

1998-2007, Senior Curator, Royal College of Surgeons of England.

2007-present, Director of Museums & Special Collections, Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Areas of interest / research

Medical portraiture, especially portraits of surgeons/anatomists.

History of anatomy/surgery and anatomical museums.