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  • Walking tour
Photograph showing a man sat reading a book at a table in front of a window, surrounded by floor to ceiling  library shelves containing books.
Wellcome Collection Library open access shelves upstairs in the Reading Room, Benjamin Gilbert. © Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

What you’ll do

Take a 30-minute informal guided tour of the Library shelves with one of the library team. You’ll hear about the unusual and surprising contents, the ‘treasures’ and how it all works. You can meet your guide beside the Library entrance on Level 2.

Dates

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Need to know

Location

The entrance to the Library is on level 2, which you can reach using stairs or a lift. The Library spans levels 2 and 3.

Drop in

Just turn up to this event. It's likely to have room for everyone.

For more information, please visit our Accessibility page. If you have any queries about accessibility, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 0 2 0. 7 6 1 1. 2 2 2 2

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About your guide

Danny Rees

Danny is the Library Engagement Officer at Wellcome Collection. He has published articles on facial expressions and physiognomy, appeared on radio and television and been a guest lecturer at the National Portrait Gallery on the subject of beauty.