Lights Up sessions are an opportunity to explore our display, ‘Expecting: Birth, Belief and Protection’ with more even lighting conditions across the gallery. There's also an audio described tour available during each session.

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Lights Up and Audio Described Tours of Expecting

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

BSL Interpreted Tours of Expecting

Lights Up sessions are an opportunity to explore our exhibition ‘Thirst: In Search of Freshwater’ with brighter lighting conditions across the gallery. There's also an audio described tour available during each session.

Lights Up and Audio Described Tours of Thirst

Discover more about the '1880 THAT' exhibition on one of our BSL-interpreted tours.

BSL Interpreted Tours of 1880 THAT

Explore the new exhibition '1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader' with audio description.

Audio Described Tours of 1880 THAT

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Visitor Experience Assistant, Nelly Ekstrom, leading a gallery tour

Access Tours and Discussions

Spices in Ayurveda

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A speech to text tour at Wellcome Collection

Information Point on level 0

STT Tour of Misbehaving Bodies

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Visitor Experience Assistant tour at Wellcome Collection

AD Tour of Smoke and Mirrors

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SIRE gallery, part of the exhibition Somewhere in Between

Charmed Circle

STT Tour of Play Well

AD Tour of Being Human

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Global Clinic

Gallery 2

Tactile AD Tour of Global Clinic

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Dr Gemma Bale

The Forum

Packed Lunch

Illuminating Brains

STT Tour of Smoke and Mirrors

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Unexpected interludes in the Reading Room

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Unexpected Interludes in the Reading Room

Reading Room

On the Rag

AD Tour of Living with Buildings

STT Tour of Living with Buildings

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British Sign Language interpreter

Behind the Eyes

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Access tour at Wellcome Collection

AD Tour of Play Well

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Speech-to-text tour

Speech-to-Text tour of Teeth

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Reading Room workshop

Tell Us the Tooth and other stories

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Body Image study day

AD Shrunken Body Parts Object Handling

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Tilley Milburn and Del the Pig with the Wellcomeville exhibit in the Living with Buildings exhibition

Building Wellcomeville

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Suzanne O’Sullivan

Henry Wellcome Auditorium

On Medicine and Change

Stories of Ageing

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Gallery tour at Wellcome Collection

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Audio Described Tour of The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained

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We regularly run tours of our exhibitions for visitors with access needs: British Sign Language (BSL) interpreted, audio described (AD) and speech-to-text (STT) tours.

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A Visitor Experience Tour of Expecting Exhibition

Gallery 3

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Audio-described tour of 'The Cult of Beauty' exhibition

Gallery 1

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British sign language interpreter

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