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Photograph of an exhibition gallery space, with a blue stained wood wall in the background, on which are hung 9 photographs showing flooded landscapes. In the foreground is a life-size artwork of a figure resembling an astronaut. carrying a large net containing assorted objects including a suitcase.
Refugee Astronaut by Yinka Shonibare CBE. Source: Wellcome Collection.
  • Season

What does it mean to be human, now?

How we can care for ourselves and for each other during extraordinary cultural, social and political shifts? Our programme brings multiple perspectives and voices both into the building and across our digital platforms, based on our collecting and commissioning activities during 2020.

A dense thicket of trees, the other side of which lies a clearing in which there is the shape of a structure made of branches.
  • Installation
The Den
Opening soon
The view from beneath an examination table. A pair of legs in white ankle socks belonging to a person sitting on the table are seen from behind. The spread legs and lower torso of a medic sitting in a chair are also shown, with hands holding a notebook and pen.
  • Installation
Standardized Patient
Opening soon
Three people sitting at a desk with microphones reading from papers. The audience is in the foreground.
  • Installation
Do You Consider Yourself Healthy?
Opening soon
Photograph of a museum gallery space with display cases and exhibits. In the foreground is a woman wearing a face covering and a pair of yellow over the ear headphones. She is in the process of plugging the headphones into the socket of an audio exhibit. To the right of her is another woman also wearing a face covering who is looking up at a transparent model of human being. In the far distance is a man, also wearing a face covering who is exploring the exhibiton.
  • Permanent exhibition
Being Human
Opening soon
Portrait of Elif Shafak on a video call on a laptop. Elif appears on the laptop screen. On the desk around the laptop, there is a plant and a small wooden figurine of a dog.
  • Discussion

Empathy in an Age of Division

Available to watch
  • Audio described (online)
  • Speech-to-text (online)
Photographic portrait of Emily Sargent and Shamita Sharmacharja appearing on a video call on a laptop. Emily is wearing glasses with blonde shoulder-length hair and Shamita is wearing a green striped dress with brown shoulder-length hair. The laptop is on a wooden table, a chair and bookshelves are nearby against a yellow wall.
  • Online event

Curators Introduce Art by Kerry Tribe and Sop

Available to watch
  • Captioned (online)

Being Human Now, Part 1

In this short film, our collaborators generously share their personal experiences of life and work during the Covid-19 pandemic.

For All I Care podcast

Join us as we explore how to care, more creatively.

The Disabled lockdown experience

Four Disabled writers and the mother of a Disabled teenager share their powerfully personal experiences of lockdown. For them, the threat of a pandemic is about much more than the risk of catching Covid-19.

How to Hold, Behold, and Be Held

Rhiannon Armstrong brings together offerings from musicians, artists, and members of the public that explore how we navigate this time.

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