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Wellcome Collection has a café and shop.

Our policy for ensuring a safe environment for children and vulnerable adults who visit us.

Morten L Kringelbach, Professor of Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Denmark, and the University of Oxford, UK, talks about pleasure cycles in the brain.

Three external members have been appointed to work alongside Wellcome senior staff to provide strategic guidance and advice for Wellcome Collection.

Photographer Chrystel Lebas talks about photographing some of the oldest trees in the world, her experiences of awe and serenity at being in these ancient landscapes, and her attempts to translate that feeling into the gallery.

New exhibition will examine what we think, feel and value about other species and the consequences this has for the world around us.

Exploring good-luck charms that soldiers took to the battlefields with them.

Wayne McGregor is well known for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations. .

Melanie Keen, the Director and Chief Curator of Iniva (the Institute of International Visual Arts), has been appointed Director of Wellcome Collection. She will take up the role in Autumn 2019.

Jacob Krzanowski, Associate Registrar for Sustainability at the Royal College of Psychiatry and Associate of the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, talks about the positive impact being outside in nature can have on our mood.

Gallery captions for the ‘Rooted Beings’ exhibition

The shortlist for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize is announced, celebrating the best new books that illuminate our encounters with health, medicine and illness.

RawMinds ran a public speaking project in 2017 to help recruit new members.

The Burroughs Room is a wonderfully quiet meeting room with a semi-private terrazzo lobby.

You are welcome to take photographs for your own personal use in most of our exhibitions and in other public areas of the building, except where signs indicate otherwise.

Explore the history and health links of a pair of wooden spiked sandals from our collections. The sandals originated in India and were worn to demonstrate religious devotion.

'Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan', brings together more than 300 works for the first major display of Japanese Outsider Art in the UK.

‘Love Letters to a Liveable Future’ takes the challenge of the climate crisis and offers the dream space to imagine how we would like our world to be different: one that foregrounds the health, wellbeing and future of all living creatures.

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Wellcome’s rich historic collection of South Asian objects takes centre stage in Ayurvedic Man: encounters with Indian Medicine.