A free museum and library exploring health and human experience

  • Exhibition

In the Air

Explore our relationship with the air around us. Moving freely across borders and through bodies, air is both vital to our existence and a threat to our health.

This week

In focus

  • Book

Hybrid Humans

Harry Parker meets the people pushing the limits of our bodies and brains, grappling with his own new identity and disability along the way.

  • Podcast

Hello Happiness

What is happiness? In this five-part podcast, broadcaster and journalist Bidisha and guest presenter Moya Lothian-Mclean invite their guest speakers to explore the meaning of positive emotions.

Venue hire

Our venues at Wellcome Collection are available seven days a week. They're ideal for almost any event.

Latest stories

  • Comic

The neurodivergent cocktail

Mental health problems and neurodivergence often go hand in hand.

Part of Neurodivergent Navigations

  • Serial
Part2

The fine line between collecting and hoarding

Being ‘a collector’ is often celebrated but being labelled ‘a hoarder’ can be humiliating, at best. Georgie Evans asks what makes one set of objects a collection and another a hoard.

Part of Hoard

  • Article

A bad atmosphere in the Balkans

The citizens of Belgrade, one of the most polluted cities in Europe, are finally pushing back against the polluters, whose activities they’ve been encouraged to accept.

  • Photo story

Generation portraits

Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.

All stories