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We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.

Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.

And yet we still can't agree...

In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.

Artists and medics through the ages have made links between our discerning human senses and similar traits in animals. Discover how close we are to the earth’s other inhabitants.

Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.

Discover why Thomas Coleman wanted to make a medieval folding almanac relevant to the modern world and see the film for yourself.

Celebrates the beauty and strangeness of ordering systems used to classify nature in the 18th and 19th centuries.

'Making Nature: How we see animals' brings together over 100 objects from literature, film, taxidermy and photography.

For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.

Does displaying dead animals bring us closer to nature, or drive us further apart?

A dark, fascinating and endlessly curious exploration of human and animal cannibalism.

New exhibition will examine what we think, feel and value about other species and the consequences this has for the world around us.

An exploration of medieval theories of embryology and the concept of the hybrid human/animal monster.

We want everyone to feel included in all that Wellcome Collection has to offer. Find out how we make our building, services and programme as accessible and inclusive as possible.

The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.

In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.

When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.

To salve her longing for a dog, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan chose a puppy. She found that, despite centuries of domestication, her dog still retains aspects of her wild ancestry.

Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.