A free museum and library exploring health and human experience

Exhibition

Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care – Spaces of Grief and Possibility

Rudy Loewe’s new exhibition explores the lived experience of Black people whose mental healthcare is shaped by racism, and reimagines an equitable mental healthcare system.

This week

Exhibition

The Coming of Age

26 March 2026 – 29 November 2026

Now on

Exhibition

Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions

10 July 2026 – 7 February 2027

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Display

Tenderness and Rage

29 May 2026 – 30 May 2027

Now on

Relaxed opening

Relaxed Opening of ‘Audrey Amiss' and ‘Rudy Loewe' exhibitions

Gallery 2

Sunday 23 August 202610:00 – 14:00

Relaxed

Gallery tour

BSL Tour of ‘Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions’ with Alison Claire France

Information Point on level 0

Sunday 23 August 202614:00 – 15:00

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Part of Access Tours and Discussions

British Sign Language
Wheelchair accessible

Daily Guided Tours and Discussions

Tuesday–Sunday

11:45, 14:15 and 15:15

Permanent exhibition

Being Human

Now on

Our building has step-free access. Exhibitions include audio description, British Sign Language and captions.

All exhibitions and events

In focus

The Joy of Being Disabled

Explore what it means to be joyful, defiant and disabled. Guest edited by Amy Kavanagh, this series of five articles celebrates different bodies and minds, and challenges ableist ideas of what it means to be happy.

Books

We publish books that explore health and human experience. Our latest title, ‘The Coming of Age: Notes on Getting Older’, is an anthology on ageing, bringing together science, myth and essays by Angela Saini, Sharon Blackie and Venki Ramakrishnan.

Shop

The Wellcome Collection shop stocks unique books and gifts inspired by our collection and exhibition themes.

Latest stories

Short film

A medieval birthing girdle MS.632

An in-depth exploration of the content and use of a 500 year-old birth girdle, guided by medieval researcher Dr Kierri Price.

Part of

Protection and the medieval birth scroll

Article

Representing women's experiences of infertility

From medieval birth scrolls to online discussion forums, Sally Butcher's artwork explores the the historical and contemporary impact of language on how we think about (or don't think about) infertility.

Part of

Protection and the medieval birth scroll

Book extract

Through the valley of gloom

What does depression feel like – and what helps? Gavin Francis reflects on language, culture and care, and the small steps that can light the way through the gloom.

Part of

Inside our books

Long read

The art of intensive care

If we can imagine a utopian future for medicine, its model would be the ICU. Elinor Cleghorn explores the history of intensive care, and how her brush with death taught her care’s true meaning.

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