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1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader

Display

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Zines Forever! DIY Publishing and Disability Justice

Permanent exhibition

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Being Human

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Medicine Man

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Thirst: In Search of Freshwater

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Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights

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The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained

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Jason and the Adventure of 254

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The Cult of Beauty

Black Cultural Archives

Wellcome Connecting Science

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Genetic Automata

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Milk

Installation

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The Archive of an Unseen

Jim Naughten

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Objects in Stereo

Grace Ndiritu

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The Healing Pavilion

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In Plain Sight

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It Teks Time

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In the Air

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Rooted Beings

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Viscera

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

Wellcome Collection

Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from our collections.

Our new permanent gallery explores trust, identity and health in a changing world.

This free permanent exhibition in central London reunites a cross-section of extraordinary objects about science, medicine, health and the body from Henry Wellcome’s collection.

Our major new exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater — an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

Explore the profound impact of physical work on health and the enduring fight for workers’ rights through our new major exhibition.

This evolving display features a series of stories about the entangled global histories, vibrant traditions, and new innovations connected to the kola nut.

Showcasing Jason Wilsher-Mills’ largest and most personal commission to date, this exhibition is a joyful exploration of the body, drawing on the artist’s experience of becoming disabled as a child.

Our major new exhibition explores notions of beauty across time and cultures.

‘Genetic Automata’ is an ongoing body of video works by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, video games and DNA ancestry.

Our major new exhibition explores our relationship with milk and its place in politics, society and culture.

Scroll through fragments of the artist’s life story of growing up black, disabled and working class in the 1980s in this interactive artwork.

‘Objects in Stereo’ is a new exhibition by British photographer Jim Naughten that explores the practice of keeping a collection, and asks what it means to keep and care for museum objects.

‘The Healing Pavilion’ is a new art commission by British-Kenyan visual artist Grace Ndiritu, which radically reimagines what textiles and architecture can do in a museum burdened by colonial history.

‘In Plain Sight’ examines the many ways we see and are seen by others and explores what happens when we open ourselves up to seeing differently.

Spend a moment contemplating how we navigate our fluctuating feelings.

Explore our relationship with the air around us. Moving freely across borders and through our bodies, air is both vital to our existence and a threat to our health.

Step into a more entangled view of life on earth. Through new commissions, striking artworks and historic artefacts, ‘Rooted Beings’ reimagines our relationship with plants.

Explore the diversity of euphoric experiences and the effect of positive emotion on the body.

Are we all entitled to express our emotions equally in different social contexts? A new short film by Bhebhe&Davies asks how we conceal, perform and harness rage.

Exhibitions

Current exhibitions

1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader

Zines Forever! DIY Publishing and Disability Justice

Being Human

Thirst: In Search of Freshwater

Past Exhibitions

Medicine Man

Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights

The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained

Jason and the Adventure of 254

The Cult of Beauty

Genetic Automata

Milk

The Archive of an Unseen

Objects in Stereo

The Healing Pavilion

In Plain Sight

It Teks Time

In the Air

Rooted Beings

Joy

Viscera

Exhibitions

Current exhibitions

1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader

Zines Forever! DIY Publishing and Disability Justice

Being Human

Thirst: In Search of Freshwater

Past Exhibitions

Medicine Man

Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights

The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained

Jason and the Adventure of 254

The Cult of Beauty

Genetic Automata

Milk

The Archive of an Unseen

Objects in Stereo

The Healing Pavilion

In Plain Sight

It Teks Time

In the Air

Rooted Beings

Joy

Viscera

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