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From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

Join researchers Hannah Elizabeth and Suzanne Taylor to learn about the history of public health posters, then use your laptop to share information with others online.

A new way of researching.

Further details about how we manage research access to our collections.

In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.

James Peto has been appointed Head of Public Programmes at Wellcome Collection.

In September 2024, Wellcome Collection will present ‘Hard Graft’ a free major exhibition exploring experiences of physical work and its impacts on health and the body.

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.

The first major exhibition exploring the relationship between graphic design and health will open at Wellcome Collection in September 2017.

Over 800,000 pages of archival material from psychiatric hospitals in the UK will be digitised and made freely available online.

Being Human, the new permanent gallery at Wellcome Collection will explore what it means to be human in the 21st century.

Residents from 2021–24, Land Body Ecologies, led by creative arts studio Invisible Flock, were a global transdisciplinary network exploring the relationship between mental health and ecosystem health.

Wellcome Collection presents the first major exhibition exploring the relationship between graphic design and health.

Discover the ‘A museum of modern nature’ at Wellcome Collection, where everyday objects reveal our ever-evolving relationship with the natural world.

Residents from 2014-16, Hubbub was led by Durham University and explored the science, politics and art of rest and restlessness in our mind and bodies.

Using carefully crafted, colourful graphics is one public health team’s creative approach.

In September 2019, Wellcome Collection will open a permanent exhibition space presenting a fresh approach to health, science, art and medicine.

Wellcome Collection, one of the world’s finest resources for the study of the social and cultural contexts of health, announces that it has been awarded Archive Service Accreditation, the UK standard for archive services.