Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Collection
	; ; ; ; Location within Greater London;
Established	2007
Location	; Euston Road; London, NW1; United Kingdom
Coordinates	; 51°31′33″N 0°08′02″W / 51.52582°N 0.13385°W / 51.52582; -0.13385Coordinates: 51°31′33″N 0°08′02″W / 51.52582°N 0.13385°W / 51.52582; -0.13385;
Type	Museum, library
Collections	history of medicine
Visitors	c. 750,000 per annum
Founder	Henry Wellcome
Director	Dr Simon Chaplin
Public transit access	; Euston Square; Euston;
Website	wellcomecollection.org

Museum, library in London, United Kingdom

Wellcome Collection is a museum and library based at 183 Euston Road, London, displaying an unusual mixture of medical artefacts and original artworks exploring "ideas about the connections between medicine, life and art".^[1] Founded in 2007, Wellcome Collection now attracts over 700,000 visitors per year^{[citation needed]}^[2] and is advertised as "the free destination for the incurably curious". The venue offers visitors contemporary and historic exhibitions and collections, lively public events, the world-renowned Wellcome Library, a café, a bookshop and conference facilities.

History and development[edit]

Wellcome Museum staff, c. 1915. Unknown photographer. The Wellcome Collection, London

Hall of Statuary, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London, c. 1926. Unknown photographer. The Wellcome Collection, London

Wellcome Collection is part of the Wellcome Trust, founded by Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936). An extensive and enthusiastic traveller, Henry Wellcome amassed a huge collection of books, paintings and objects, on the theme of historical development of medicine worldwide. There was an earlier Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at 54a Wigmore Street, housing artefacts from around the world.^[3]

The Wellcome Trust moved its administrative offices into their new Gibbs Building (designed for the Trust by Michael Hopkins and Partners) on the adjoining site in Euston Road, completed 2004: thereby creating an opportunity for a new public venue in the old Wellcome Building. The collection opened to the public in June 2007.^[4] Due to its historical holdings, the Wellcome Collection is a member of The London Museums of Health & Medicine group.^[5]

Having been open since 2007, Wellcome Collection re-opened with additional public spaces in October 2015.^[6]

Wellcome Library[edit]

Three leeches attend a grasshopper, prescribing a course of bloodletting, cartoon by Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard c.1832. Wellcome Library collections.

The Wellcome Library provides access to collections of books, manuscripts, archives, films and pictures on the history of medicine from the earliest times to the present day^[7]

The Hub[edit]

Located on the 5th floor of the Collection, The Hub is a space for researchers and other creative minds to collaborate. The first residents of The Hub, Hubbub, are exploring the dynamics of "rest, noise, tumult, activity and work" from October 2014 to July 2016.^[8] In October 2016 a group exploring dementia and the arts will begin their residency.^[9]

The Reading Room[edit]

Refurbished in 2015 as part of the Wellcome Collection's 2015 renovation,^[6] the Reading Room is an "innovative hybrid of gallery, library and events space" open to the public.

The collections[edit]

'Medicine Man' one of the galleries at Wellcome Collection, London

The first printout of the human genome to be presented as a series of books.

The collection is divided into several spaces. The "Medicine Man" area is a permanent display of a small part of Henry Wellcome's collection. "Medicine Now" is a permanent exhibition combining art, mixed media displays and objects to present some aspects of modern medicine and of the work of the Wellcome Trust. This area features a postcard wall where visitors are encouraged to contribute drawings.

The main exhibition space hosts a changing programme of events and exhibitions. The space has included work by Felicity Powell and Bobby Baker.

The building foyer and public areas usually include a 1950 work by Pablo Picasso^[10] (originally on a wall in John Desmond Bernal's flat in Torrington Square) and one by Anthony Gormley.^[11] A figure by Marc Quinn ^[12] was originally lying unprotected on the stone floor, then moved inside a glass case, and is also not currently on view.

Exhibitions[edit]

Date	Exhibition	Details
Permanent	Medicine Now	About
Permanent	Medicine Man	About
8 March 2018 - 27 August 2018	Somewhere in Between	About
16 November 2017 - 8 April 2018	Ayurvedic Man: encounters with Indian medicine	About
7 September 2017 - 14 January 2018	Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?	About
22 June 2017 - 8 October 2017	A museum of modern nature	About
23 February 2017 - 25 June 2017	Electricity: The spark of life	About
1 December 2016 - 21 May 2017	Making Nature: How we see animals	About
15 September 2016 - 15 January 2017	Bedlam: the asylum and beyond	About
4 February 2016 - 16 October 2016	States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness	About
14 April 2016 - 31 July 2016	THIS IS A VOICE	About
19 November 2015 - 28 February 2016	Tibet’s Secret Temple	About
15 October 2015 - 3 January 2016	Ann Veronica Janssens: yellowbluepink	About
22 October 2015 - 25 October 2015	Light Transmission	About
22 July 2015 - 18 October 2015	Alice Anderson: Memory Movement Memory Objects	About
15 September 2015 - 27 September 2015	Raw Emotion	About
20 November 2014 - 20 September 2015	The Institute of Sexology	About
26 February 2015 - 21 June 2015	Forensics: The anatomy of crime	About
28 April 2015 - 4 May 2015	For Now We See	About
1 May 2015 - 4 May 2015	Non in Luce	About
1 May 2015 - 4 May 2015	Modernity’s Candle and the Ways of the Pathless Deep	About
1 May 2015 - 4 May 2015	Slow Story Slide Show	About
2 April 2015 - 26 April 2015	Forensic Identity	About
28 October 2014 - 9 November 2014	The Human Emporium	About
2 September 2014 - 21 September 2014	Unravelled	About
24 June 2014 - 12 October 2014	An Idiosyncratic A to Z of the Human Condition	About
15 May 2014 - 10 August 2014	The Generosity Plates	About
10 May 2014 - 15 May 2014	Module Units	About
14 November 2013 - 16 March 2014	Foreign Bodies, Common Ground	About
19 September 2013 - 27 October 2013	Thinking with the body: Mind and movement in the work of Wayne McGregor - Random Dance	About
6 June 2013 - 31 July 2013	First Time Out 2013	About
11 May 2013 - 12 May 2013	Collection of the Everyday	About
28 March 2013 - 30 June 2013	Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan	About
15 November 2012 - 24 February 2013	Death: A self-portrait	About
18 October 2012 - 11 November 2012	Georgie Meadows: Stitched Drawings	About
19 July 2012 - 16 October 2012	Superhuman	About
22 June 2012 - 11 July 2012	Super Thinking	About
1 June 2012 - 1 June 2013	Memory Trace at the Wellcome Trust	About
29 March 2012 - 17 June 2012	Brains: The mind as matter	About
6 October 2011 - 26 February 2012	Felicity Powell - Charmed Life: The solace of objects	About
6 October 2011 - 26 February 2012	Infinitas Gracias: Mexican miracle paintings	About
24 March 2011 - 31 August 2011	Dirt: The filthy reality of everyday life	About
2 March 2011 - 20 March 2011	Ars Moriendi: The art of dying	About
20 January 2011 - 22 August 2011	First Time Out	About
9 December 2010 - 16 January 2011	Aura Satz: Sound Seam	About
11 November 2010 - 27 February 2011	High Society	About
10 June 2010 - 26 September 2010	Skin	About
26 November 2009 - 6 April 2010	Identity	About
30 July 2009 - 18 October 2009	Exquisite Bodies	About
1 April 2009 - 28 June 2009	Madness & Modernity	About
19 March 2009 - 2 August 2009	Bobby Baker's Diary Drawings	About
22 November 2008 - 15 February 2009	War and Medicine	About
23 July 2008 - 28 September 2008	Skeletons	About
29 May 2008 - 30 June 2008	Twenty Six Things	About
9 April 2008 - 19 May 2008	Life Before Death	About
29 November 2007 - 9 March 2008	Sleeping & Dreaming	About
21 June 2007 - 17 September 2007	The Heart	About

References[edit]

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^ http://www.archdaily.com/642210/wellcome-collection-london-transformation-wilkinson-eyre-architects

^ "Error". wellcome.ac.uk.

^ Photograph: Felix Clay/freelance. "The Wellcome Collection". the Guardian.

^ "Medical Museums". medicalmuseums.org. Retrieved 26 August 2016.

^ ^a^b Houghton, Lauren (23 February 2015). "Wellcome Collection to reopen after £17.5m refurb". Retrieved 26 March 2016.

^ "Wellcome Library - Home". wellcomelibrary.org.

^ "Hubbub 'about' page".

^ "Exploration of dementia announced as second project of The Hub at Wellcome Collection". 24 March 2016.

^ "Bernal's Picasso Goes On Show In London At Wellcome Collection". culture24.org.uk.

^ "Antony Gormley". Telegraph.co.uk.

^ White Cube. "Exhibitions - White Cube". whitecube.com.

External links[edit]

Official website
- "The Hub". At the top of the Wellcome Collection— a dynamic interdisciplinary research space

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[2] ttp://www.archdaily.com/642210/wellcome-collection-london-transformation-wilkinson-eyre-architects

[3] "Error". wellcome.ac.uk.

[4] Photograph: Felix Clay/freelance. "The Wellcome Collection". the Guardian.

[5] "Medical Museums". medicalmuseums.org. Retrieved 26 August 2016.

[Refurbishment-6] Houghton, Lauren (23 February 2015). "Wellcome Collection to reopen after £17.5m refurb". Retrieved 26 March 2016.

[7] "Wellcome Library - Home". wellcomelibrary.org.

[8] "Hubbub 'about' page".

[9] "Exploration of dementia announced as second project of The Hub at Wellcome Collection". 24 March 2016.

[10] "Bernal's Picasso Goes On Show In London At Wellcome Collection". culture24.org.uk.

[11] "Antony Gormley". Telegraph.co.uk.

[12] White Cube. "Exhibitions - White Cube". whitecube.com.

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