Featuring over 200 items, including historical objects, artworks, films and new commissions, this exhibition explores notions of beauty across time and cultures.
8 June 2023 – 11 February 2024
26 October 2023 – 28 April 2024
Thursday 9 November 202319:00 – 20:30
Part of The Evidence
We publish thought-provoking books exploring health and human experiences. Our latest titles include ‘Free for All’, an urgent call to arms in defence of our NHS by bestselling author and GP, Gavin Francis.
The Wellcome Collection shop stocks unique books and gifts inspired by our collection and exhibition themes.
Archivist Elena Carter writes about finding the artist Audrey Amiss through caring for her collection, and how we understand a life in the material that is left behind.
Corporeal form + shame = profit.
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
I'm sorry but wtf are ‘hip dips’?
Researcher and zine-maker Lea Cooper considers how comic-zines use the distinctive qualities of zines to explore some of the complex connections between memory, autobiography, disability, neurodivergence and queer identity.
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