Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Shop

Café

Our exhibition ‘1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader’ in Gallery 2 is closed this afternoon (Tuesday 17 February) due to essential maintenance work. Thank you for your understanding.

We're running paid user research studies to improve Wellcome Collection online

Take part in research

The power of wisdom: Solomon gives the order that a child should be cut in half to stop two women fighting over it. Engraving by Adrian Collaert after Jan van der Straet, 1567/1605.

Works search

The power of wisdom: Solomon gives the order that a child should be cut in half to stop two women fighting over it. Engraving by Adrian Collaert after Jan van der Straet, 1567/1605.