This exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

Sales catalogues: Museum various. Smaller auction houses and estate sellersWA/HMM/CM/Sal/24 ...

M0006987: Manuscript page from Roger Frugardi, Chirurgia, and other medical miscellany depicting scenes of surgery Date: 4 July 1940 Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/59/76 ...

Credit: The American eclectic materia medica and therapeutics / John M. Scudder. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, ...

show credit information for image 'Legacies of eugenics in school' Legacies of eugenics in school. © Gergo Varga (varrgo.com) for Wellcome Collection. When A-level ...

show credit information for image 'A covered corpse lying on a bed. Etching by Ch. Chaplin after Louis-Henri Deschamps.' When terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, ...

The Medicine Man gallery has been part of Wellcome Collection since we opened in 2007. It was one of five spaces where visitors can see items from the collections for free, alongside the Reading Room, ...

In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...

Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We feel overwhelmed by the events around us, by injustice, by suffering, by an endless feeling of crisis. So how can we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, ...

Wellcome Collection is built on collections assembled by Sir Henry Wellcome. In the early 20th century Wellcome founded a private historical medical museum closely linked with his pharmaceutical ...

show credit information for image 'Phallic object, large plaster female figure.' Alfred Charles Kinsey once said that a nymphomaniac is “someone who has more sex than you do”, and Kinsey was a man who ...

In many countries around the world there are artificial haunted houses, attractions set up for the purposes of fairground entertainment, featuring over-the-top ogres and spirits that are often more ...