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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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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.

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A symbol of a lost homeland

The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.

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Care, creativity and a connected world

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

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  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
  • The Zoological Museum ... : Mr. Seaman, (as manager for a society of gentlemen, to whom this collection belongs) begs to inform the ladies and gentlemen of this town, that he has just arrived with that extensive and valuable Museum, containing many thousands of natural curiosities ...
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  • Voice, song, and speech : a practical guide for singers and speakers from the combined view of vocal surgeon and voice trainer / by Lennox Browne and Emil Behnke.
  • A choir of three men and two boys singing from a book which is on a lectern. Woodcut, ca. 1500.
  • A woman laughing. Lithograph by P. Simonau, 1822, after C. Le Brun.
  • A choir of three men and two boys singing from a book which is on a lectern. Woodcut, ca. 1500.
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