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Join us for a gallery tour and discussion on the historical context of zine-making.

Join us for a theatre workshop where you will explore the lived experience of breastfeeding through acting.

Discover more about the 'Thirst: In Search of Freshwater' exhibition on one of our BSL-interpreted tours.

Join us for an evening of Visual Vernacular and poetry performances to reflect on the power of sign language to unite, express and communicate.

We welcome group visits. We can help you with advanced bookings for tours, and answer any other questions you have about bringing your group to our building.

Join our Visitor Experience and Engagement team for a drop-in object-handling session, where you can get up close to some of the items in our collection.

Take a Deaf-led BSL tour of the ‘1880 THAT’ exhibition led by Damaris Cooke who worked on the exhibition.

In July 2025 Wellcome Collection presents ‘Finger Talk’, a powerful new British Sign Language (BSL) audiovisual installation by artist and curator Cathy Mager, in collaboration with deaf artists and contributors.

Join Claudia Hammond from the BBC and guests to discuss the relationship between water, climate change and health.

Residents from 2016–18, Created Out of Mind was led by University College London (UCL) and aimed to shape perceptions of dementia through science and the creative arts.

Historian Molly Conisbee reflects on how we’ve paid our respects to the dead over the centuries – from lively gatherings around open coffins to sympathetic text messages – asking how mourning rituals can create communities.

There are clues in the margins of medieval manuscripts to suggest that disabled people in the past made long pilgrimages, and were helped on their journeys by mobility aids remarkably similar to those we have today.

Join an in-conversation between Grace Spence Green and Kyla Harris, as Grace explores her journey from spinal-injury patient to qualified doctor and disabled activist.

Discover more about the 'Being Human' exhibition on one of our BSL-interpreted tours.

A young doctor's extraordinary story of near-death, recovery and radical acceptance.

Wellcome Collection is proud to have been awarded the inaugural Visitor Accessibility Award at last night’s Museum + Heritage Awards, one of the UK’s most prestigious celebrations of excellence in the cultural sector.

‘1880 THAT’ is an exhibition by the artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader. In their artworks they use humour and wordplay to explore sign language’s relationship to spoken language, and to draw attention to historic decision-making that still influences how we communicate today.

This playful exhibition of new and existing works by artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader explores sign language and the right to communicate.

This playful exhibition of new and existing works by artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader explores sign language and the right to communicate.

Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we all think and feel about health.