What you'll do
Join us for a tour designed for visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing. We’ll focus on objects across the museum linked with beliefs about the function, power and secret properties of our eyes.
British Sign Language interpreter, Thomas SG Farnetti. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Dates
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Past
Need to know
Location
We’ll meet at the Information Point, which is on level 0, directly in front of you as you enter Wellcome Collection.
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
About your guides
Sarah Bentley
Sarah is a Visitor Experience Assistant and guide. In the pursuit of her tour research for Wellcome Collection she has trained in shiatsu, a form of massage derived from Chinese medicine, learned a lost slang called Polari, tried an ancient Greek sleep cure and built a replica spirit-rapping hand.
Michelle Wood
Michelle has been a qualified British Sign Language Interpreter for over 20 years and has been working with the Wellcome Collection for the last 10 years. She loves being a small part of the team who ensure that the Deaf Community have full access to what, in her view, is one of the best places in London. NRCPD no: 1009790