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.
- Interview
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
Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
Date: 1831-1848- Books
The university and the press in fifteenth-century Bologna / [Curt Ferdinand Bühler].
Bühler, Curt F. (Curt Ferdinand), 1905-1985.Date: 1958