This exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.
Over 1.1 million items exploring art, health, culture and what it means to be human. Our South Asian collections include historical manuscripts in the region’s many languages, documents from the ...
Credit: Ophthalmia neonatorum : with especial reference to its causation and prevention / by Sydney Stephenson. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey ...
Diseases of the heart : described for practitioners and students / by Sir Thomas Lewis. Thomas Lewis ...
Sir Charles Bell's watercolours of wounds sustained by soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo, June 1815
The originals may be consulted at the Museum of Military Medicine. A digitised copy is available to view via the online catalogue on the Wellcome Collection website. A facsimile set of colour ...
In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...
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 ...
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 ...
In the final year of the First World War a deadly pandemic spread rapidly around the world. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–19 infected up to a third of the world’s population and killed up to 100 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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