Discover more about our exhibition ‘The Coming of Age’ on one of our BSL-interpreted tours.

Wellcome Collection

BSL Interpreted Tours of The Coming of Age

Lights Up sessions are an opportunity to explore our exhibition ‘The Coming of Age’ with brighter lighting conditions across the gallery. There's also an audio described tour available during each session.

Lights Up and Audio Described Tours of The Coming of Age

Explore our ‘Being Human’ exhibition in British Sign Language (BSL) with Deaf performance artist Chisato Minamura and uncover unique stories about what it means to be human from a Deaf perspective.

BSL Tour of Being Human with Chisato Minamimura

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Alan D Murray

Information Point on level 0

Access Tours and Discussions

BSL Tour of Medicine Now

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Nadia Nadarajah

BSL Tour of Play Well

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Martin Glover

BSL Tour of Living with Buildings

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Gallery tour at Wellcome Collection

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Audio Described Tour of Zines Forever! DIY Publishing and Disability Justice

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Somewhere in Between

Gallery 1

Voices in Between

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Access tour at Wellcome Collection

AD Tour of Misbehaving Bodies

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Visitor Experience Assistant, Nelly Ekstrom, leading a gallery tour

Spices in Ayurveda

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A speech to text tour at Wellcome Collection

STT Tour of Misbehaving Bodies

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Visitor Experience Assistant tour at Wellcome Collection

AD Tour of Smoke and Mirrors

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SIRE gallery, part of the exhibition Somewhere in Between

Charmed Circle

STT Tour of Play Well

AD Tour of Being Human

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Global Clinic

Gallery 2

Tactile AD Tour of Global Clinic

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Dr Gemma Bale

The Forum

Packed Lunch

Illuminating Brains

STT Tour of Smoke and Mirrors

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Unexpected interludes in the Reading Room

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Unexpected Interludes in the Reading Room

Reading Room

On the Rag

AD Tour of Living with Buildings

STT Tour of Living with Buildings

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British Sign Language interpreter

Behind the Eyes

AD Tour of Play Well

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Speech-to-text tour

We regularly run tours of our exhibitions for visitors with access needs: British Sign Language (BSL) interpreted, audio described (AD) and speech-to-text (STT) tours.

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Shop

Café

Due to essential maintenance, we won’t be able to retrieve items from our closed stores over the weekend. Please submit requests for Monday 20 April by 10:00 on Friday 17 April. The library will remain open as usual. Thank you for your understanding.

We're running paid user research studies to improve Wellcome Collection online

Take part in research

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British sign language interpreter

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Audio-described tour of 'The Cult of Beauty' exhibition

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