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A nose through Blythe House

Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.

  • Photo story

Trans masculinity on the record

Curator of the Museum of Transology in Brighton E-J Scott tells the story behind a few of the 250 objects from the collection, and the powerful effect they had on him as he put trans lives on the record.

  • Article

Care, creativity and a connected world

Find out about the challenges Wellcome Collection has faced during the last very demanding year.

  • Interview

Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing

James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.

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  • Wellcome Historical Museum Material
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  • Medicine Chest: David Livingstone
  • Barber-Surgeon operating on the head. Spanish School.
  • Instructions for Sir Hiram Maxim's pipe of peace & inhaler
  • Apothecaries shop.
  • Japanese model figures: doctor and patient
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: Egyptian reliefs.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: casts of Egyptian reliefs
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: casts of Egyptian reliefs
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Don’t Fade Away

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