Exhibitions

Explore the connections between science, medicine, life and art through our permanent and temporary exhibitions. Admission is always free.

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Free admission
Photograph of a visitor exploring the exhibition, Smoke and Mirrors at Wellcome Collection. Photograph shows a women in the background looking at an object in a display case. In the foreground is a large colourful poster showing a man in a Victorian swimming costume suspended upside down in a tank of water.
  • Exhibition

Smoke and Mirrors: The Psychology of Magic

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Now on

Photograph of a visitor exploring the exhibition, The Global Clinic at Wellcome Collection.
  • Installation

Global Clinic

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Final week

Photograph of the Medicine Man exhibition at Wellcome Collection showing a wall of oil paintings with two visitors standing in front.
  • Permanent exhibition

Medicine Man

Now on

Photograph of the Medicine Now exhibition space at Wellcome Collection with visitors looking at the exhibits.
  • Permanent exhibition

Medicine Now

Now on – closing 22 April 2019

Photograph of Jo Spence wearing a black one-piece swimming costume floating face up in blue rippled water
  • Exhibition

Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery: Misbehaving Bodies

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Coming soon

Photograph of visitors exploring the exhibition, Living with Buildings at Wellcome Collection. Photograph shows an architectural model in a display case, an armchair and framed works hanging on the wall.
  • Exhibition

Living with Buildings

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Past

Photograph of a temporary exhibition at Wellcome Collection called The Pharmacy of Colour with two people engaged in conversation.
  • Installation

The Pharmacy of Colour

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Past

Photograph of a man and a woman looking at an exhibit in the Teeth exhibition at Wellcome Collection.
  • Exhibition

Teeth

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Past

Photograph of a visitor exploring a gallery installation. She is sitting in the dark on the floor, in front of a large projection of a figure floating underwater. The room has a blue cast.
  • Exhibition

Somewhere In Between

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Past

Photograph of visitors exploring the exhibition, Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian medicine at Wellcome Collection.
  • Exhibition

Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian Medicine

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Past

Photograph of two visitors in the Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? exhibition space looking at a display case.
  • Exhibition

Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?

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Past

Photograph of a young woman exploring the exhibition, A Museum of Modern Nature at Wellcome Collection.
  • Exhibition

A Museum of Modern Nature

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Past

Photograph of a young man looking at a video installation, part of the exhibition, Electricity: The Spark of Life at Wellcome Collection.
  • Exhibition

Electricity: The Spark of Life

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Past

Photograph of a young woman exploring the exhibition, Making Nature, at Wellcome Collection.
  • Exhibition

Making Nature

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Past

Photograph of visitors exploring the exhibition, Bedlam: The Asylum and Beyond exhibition at Wellcome Collection.
  • Exhibition

Bedlam: The Asylum and Beyond

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Past

Photograph of visitors exploring the exhibition, States of Mind: Tracing the Edges of Consciousness at Wellcome Collection.
  • Exhibition

States of Mind: Tracing the Edges of Consciousness

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Past

Photograph of visitors exploring the exhibition, This is a Voice at Wellcome Collection.
  • Exhibition

This is a Voice

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Past

  • Exhibition

Tibet’s Secret Temple

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Past

Photograph of a young woman exploring the exhibition, Alice Anderson: Memory Movement Memory Objects. She is standing in a dark gallery space surrounded by think hanging copper ropes.
  • Exhibition

Alice Anderson: Memory Movement Memory Objects

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Past

Photograph of the Orgone Energy Accumulator exhibit which formed part of the exhibiton, The Institute of Sexology at Wellcome Collection.
  • Exhibition

The Institute of Sexology

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Past