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
Saturday 2 December 202311:00 – 17:00
Tuesday 5 December 202316:00 – 17:00
Part of Exploring Research
Wednesday 6 December 202310:30 – 15:30
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Part of Study Days
Thursday 7 December 202318:00 – 19:00
Part of Library Insights
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.
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
Streaming services have been real quiet since this comic went live.
A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
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