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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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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.

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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?

Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.

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Mask, ritual and fertility

Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.

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  • Wellcome Museum of Medical Science, Endsleigh Court, Endsleigh Gardens, London: a gallery on the ground floor. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Museum of Medical Science, Endsleigh Court, Endsleigh Gardens, London: a display on prophylaxis on the ground floor. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: a device for viewing photomicrographs in the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: visitors at a display in the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science on lobar pneumonia. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: an interactive display in the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science on the symptoms of follicular tonsillitis and diphtheria. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: part of the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science on the upper ground floor, showing the prevention of intestinal infections. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: part of the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science display on the upper ground floor of photographs of pathological conditions. Photograph.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: demonstration of an interactive display in the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science on the symptoms of follicular tonsillitis and diphtheria. Photograph.
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Machine
  • Artificial left arm and hand
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