Stories
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Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies
Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.
Catalogue
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British Orthopaedic Association members view an operation performed by Vittorio Putti and staff at the Rizzoli Institute, Bologna. Photograph, 1924.
Date: 1924Reference: 561655i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0008005: Medical lecture at Bologna
Date: July 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/69/16Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Anatomical figure: posterior view of the écorché figure in the anatomy theatre at Bologna. Etching by A. Cattani, 1780-1781, after E. Lelli.
Lelli, Ercole, 1702-1766.Date: [1781]Reference: 47217i- Books
The university and the press in fifteenth-century Bologna / [Curt Ferdinand Bühler].
Bühler, Curt F. (Curt Ferdinand), 1905-1985.Date: 1958- Books
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Experimental enquiries concerning the principle of the lateral communication of motion in fluids; Applied to the explanation of various hydraulic phenomena. By citizen J.B. Venturi, prosessor of Natural Philosophy at Modena, member of the Italian Society, of the Institute of Bologna, of the Agrarian Society of Turin, &c. Translated from the French.
Venturi, Giovanni Battista, 1746-1822.Date: 1799