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From activities for specific groups, such as young people, to opportunities for collaboration and working with us, it’s up to you how involved you’d like to be.

Our thought-provoking exhibitions tackle the subject of health from different perspectives.

Dynamic transdisciplinary space where creative minds collaborate on projects exploring medicine, life and art.

What can slime teach us about ourselves? Join this workshop to explore the slippery side of science and make your own gooey creation.

Our temporary exhibitions can become crowded at times, so to keep the galleries safe and comfortable, we may manage numbers with queuing or free, timed tickets.

Join Dr Gavin Francis, Micha Frazer-Carroll and Natasha Devon to discuss the social, medical and political nature of mental health.

This exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

Explore creativity, research and lived experience in this panel discussion on sickle cell disease.

Wellcome has announced that Melanie Keen, who has been Director of Wellcome Collection since 2019, will step down in the Spring of 2026.

It’s easy to overlook the litter choking our cities’ waterways, but the litter-picker’s manifesto is one to follow if we dream of a better world. Leila Taheri explores the psychology of littering and litter-picking, and imagines a radical future for our urban blue spaces.

Join us for a day of activities exploring the history of cholera and its links to freshwater.

Join Deaf historian Peter Brown for a BSL tour of 1880 THAT, with a focus on the Milan Conference of 1880.

In 2025, Wellcome Collection will present two major exhibitions around the themes of sign language and freshwater, as well a BSL themed film installation and a display based on our zines collection.

We want everyone to feel included in all that Wellcome Collection has to offer. Find out how we make our building, services and programme as accessible and inclusive as possible.

Take a Deaf-led BSL tour of the ‘1880 THAT’ exhibition led by Damaris Cooke who worked on the exhibition.

Information to help you plan and prepare for your visit to Wellcome Collection.

Read a complete set of gallery captions for Being Human, our gallery that explores how we think and feel about ourselves, our bodies and our relationship with the world around us.

Join our library team for a hands-on workshop about comic books in our collection.

Drinking water was risky in the Middle Ages. But that didn’t stop people from drinking it – warily, enthusiastically, and sometimes with disgusting consequences. Historian Katherine Harvey explores the sometimes strange beliefs medieval people had about water.

Discover how innocuous-looking human teeth hold a wealth of hidden information about our diet, health and evolution.