Discover all of the exhibitions, events and more on offer at Wellcome Collection, a free museum and library exploring health and human experience.

The Milroy lectures on epidemic diseases in England : the evidence of variability and of persistency of type delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, March 1st, 6th, and 8th, 1906 / ...

Thirst is a universal human experience shared with most living beings. With only 3% of the water on Earth being freshwater, our land thirsts too. 'Thirst: In Search of Freshwater' explores humanity’s ...

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the body at our new major exhibition. ‘Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights’ delves into the stories of underrepresented workers and their ...

"This zine promotes queer sex, genderfuck, and the advancement of amputees everywhere."--From reverse of front cover. Reprinted in 2025. Black and white inkjet printed on white paper with neon pink ...

Find out holiday, busy and opening times for the various parts of Wellcome Collection ...

Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-D E⁴. "Philiatreus" is in Greek characters. "Possibly by J. Makluire".--STC. Running titles read: The practise of physick. Title page illegible; title and imprint from STC. Print ...

The architecture of purpose-built sanatoriums enabled doctors and nurses to monitor patients more closely – the transparent, open-air designs normalised a disciplinarian regime of surveillance, which ...

We want everyone to feel included in all that Wellcome Collection has to offer. Find out how we make our building, services and programme as accessible and inclusive as possible. We welcome group ...

S hakespeare’s writing is one of the most important sources for the knowledge we have about medicine in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. His works contains a lot of information on the contemporary ...

'The Cult of Beauty' explores notions of beauty across time and cultures. Around the world, beauty is constantly seen as an ideal worthy of going to great lengths to achieve. But what driving forces ...

Not everyone was happy with the growing use of tobacco in Britain. In 1604, King James VI wrote ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’, arguing that smoking was dangerous to lung health and offensive to the ...