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Information to help you plan and prepare for your visit to Wellcome Collection.

Leave your coats and bags in our free cloakroom while you visit our exhibitions or use the research library.

Discover more about the ‘Expecting: Birth, Belief and Protection’ display on one of our BSL-interpreted tours.

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

A growing number of Victorians travelled to Europe for their health, but their experiences were not always what the doctor promised.

This playful exhibition of new and existing works by artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader explores sign language and the right to communicate.

Needle, a small London-based group, led the early fight for patient rights. Leona Letts reveals how they championed giving patients a louder voice in their own care.

As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.

Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.

Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.

An exploration of medieval theories of embryology and the concept of the hybrid human/animal monster.

Join us for the world premiere of a chamber opera inspired by the emotionally charged letters sent to Marie Stopes in response to her “sex manual”, ‘Married Love‘.

When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.

Medieval illustrations often show blind people, sometimes with dogs. But working out whether these were actually guide dogs involves a mix of detailed detective work and expert speculation.

‘Bake-Off’ finalist Mary-Anne Boermans treats us to the warm and enticing pleasures of gingerbread over centuries.

Humans have been reluctant hosts to a plethora of unpleasant parasites for centuries. And medieval evidence shows our modern distaste for these little irritations is just as ancient.

Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.

If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?

Find out how an unruly mass of archive material from a 1930s radical health centre has inspired brand new writing.