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Wellcome Collection was opened today by Nobel Prize winner Professor James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA ...

First Prize in the Popular Medicine category for the 2008 Medical Book Awards sponsored by the British Medical Association.

'Objects in Stereo' is a new exhibition by British photographer Jim Naughten, inviting visitors to look closely at museum objects usually hidden from view.

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.

Melanie Keen, the Director and Chief Curator of Iniva (the Institute of International Visual Arts), has been appointed Director of Wellcome Collection. She will take up the role in Autumn 2019.

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An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.

Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.

This new commission by British-Kenyan visual artist Grace Ndiritu is an installation revealing violent pasts and hidden power dynamics at the foundation of western museology, while reflecting attitudes and practices towards African objects in many European museum collections.

A Jamaican election banner reveals the story of a pioneering women’s rights campaigner who continues to inspire 80 years on.

British Sign Language (BSL) has evolved over centuries, shaped by stories of exclusion, and opportunity. Deaf photographer Stephen Iliffe has photographed eight people from a multi-cultural deaf community, celebrating both the quiet nuance and the expressive power of BSL.

In June 2023, Wellcome Collection will present ‘Genetic Automata’, a major exhibition of collaborative video works by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, videogames and ancestry DNA.

In October 2023, Wellcome Collection will present ‘The Cult of Beauty’, a major exhibition exploring notions of beauty across time and cultures.

In April 2025, Wellcome Collection will present '1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader', the first major London exhibition by the Berlin-based artists. It will feature new commissions and recent works that explore sign language and its relationship to spoken language.

The choices a curator makes – what goes in? what stays out? why? – are often as fascinating as the exhibition itself.

In 2025, Wellcome Collection will present two major exhibitions around the themes of sign language and freshwater, as well a BSL themed film installation and a display based on our zines collection.

A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.

Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.

Tradition and modernity come together in Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition.