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Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights

Display

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The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained

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Jason and the Adventure of 254

Permanent exhibition

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Being Human

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Medicine Man

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The Cult of Beauty

Black Cultural Archives

Wellcome Connecting Science

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Genetic Automata

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Milk

Installation

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The Archive of an Unseen

Jim Naughten

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Objects in Stereo

Grace Ndiritu

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The Healing Pavilion

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In Plain Sight

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It Teks Time

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In the Air

https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/bb657dcb-a170-4a66-ae7e-a1fa0e56ee56_EP_001763_066.jpg?auto=compress,format&rect=0,273,4000,2250&w=3200&h=1800

Rooted Beings

https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/91751213-bbd4-4e92-88b8-7c34d84c470e_EP_001514_037.jpg?auto=compress,format&rect=0,276,4000,2250&w=3200&h=1800

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Viscera

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Tranquillity

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Do you consider yourself healthy?

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What does it mean to be human now? Four views by CYP x CALLY

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

Wellcome Collection

This evolving display features a series of stories about the entangled global histories, vibrant traditions, and new innovations connected to the kola nut.

Showcasing Jason Wilsher-Mills’ largest and most personal commission to date, this exhibition is a joyful exploration of the body, drawing on the artist’s experience of becoming disabled as a child.

Our new permanent gallery explores trust, identity and health in a changing world.

This free permanent exhibition in central London reunites a cross-section of extraordinary objects about science, medicine, health and the body from Henry Wellcome’s collection.

Our major new exhibition explores notions of beauty across time and cultures.

‘Genetic Automata’ is an ongoing body of video works by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, video games and DNA ancestry.

Our major new exhibition explores our relationship with milk and its place in politics, society and culture.

Scroll through fragments of the artist’s life story of growing up black, disabled and working class in the 1980s in this interactive artwork.

‘Objects in Stereo’ is a new exhibition by British photographer Jim Naughten that explores the practice of keeping a collection, and asks what it means to keep and care for museum objects.

‘The Healing Pavilion’ is a new art commission by British-Kenyan visual artist Grace Ndiritu, which radically reimagines what textiles and architecture can do in a museum burdened by colonial history.

‘In Plain Sight’ examines the many ways we see and are seen by others and explores what happens when we open ourselves up to seeing differently.

Spend a moment contemplating how we navigate our fluctuating feelings.

Explore our relationship with the air around us. Moving freely across borders and through our bodies, air is both vital to our existence and a threat to our health.

Step into a more entangled view of life on earth. Through new commissions, striking artworks and historic artefacts, ‘Rooted Beings’ reimagines our relationship with plants.

Explore the diversity of euphoric experiences and the effect of positive emotion on the body.

Are we all entitled to express our emotions equally in different social contexts? A new short film by Bhebhe&Davies asks how we conceal, perform and harness rage.

Take a deeper look at feelings of peace and balance.

Drop in to the Reading Room to take part in artist Oreet Ashery’s project.

This installation featured five short films exploring the question of being human during Covid-19 through poetry and monologues. Watch the films online, together with participants' reflections.

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Exhibitions

Current exhibitions

Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights

The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained

Jason and the Adventure of 254

Being Human

Past Exhibitions

Medicine Man

The Cult of Beauty

Genetic Automata

Milk

The Archive of an Unseen

Objects in Stereo

The Healing Pavilion

In Plain Sight

It Teks Time

In the Air

Rooted Beings

Joy

Viscera

Tranquillity

Do you consider yourself healthy?

What does it mean to be human now? Four views by CYP x CALLY

Exhibitions

Current exhibitions

Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights

The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained

Jason and the Adventure of 254

Being Human

Past Exhibitions

Medicine Man

The Cult of Beauty

Genetic Automata

Milk

The Archive of an Unseen

Objects in Stereo

The Healing Pavilion

In Plain Sight

It Teks Time

In the Air

Rooted Beings

Joy

Viscera

Tranquillity

Do you consider yourself healthy?

What does it mean to be human now? Four views by CYP x CALLY

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