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

'Finger Talk' is a new British Sign Language (BSL) artwork by Cathy Mager that invites visitors to step out of a hearing-centred world and into a space shaped by deaf perspectives. Bringing together ...

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F or too many years there has been a persistent untruth that autism is rare in girls and women. The use of classic autistic male characteristics for diagnostic parameters has meant that generations of ...

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 ...

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Death and propriety The morgue was finally closed to the public in 1907 over moral concerns, drawing complaints from local businesses, street vendors and journalists. We may look back and wonder how ...

Rosalind Elsie Franklin was born in London 25 July 1920, the daughter of Ellis and Muriel Franklin. She was educated at St Paul's School, London. In 1941 she gained a BA in Physical Chemistry, at ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we're ill we're forced to recognize that we've become another person, frail and mortal. The adjustment is painful. This anthology of poems supplies images and emotions that help us to accept our ...

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 ...