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Dodie Bellamy remembers a heady summer watching Doris Day grimace and gust in vintage movies, her expressive exhalations changing her onscreen world with a puff.

Work begins in earnest to restore order to the archive Audrey Amiss kept of the minutest happenings in her life. Like detectives, the archivists search for subtle clues to chronology in the mass of materials.

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.

Join our visitor experience team for a drop-in object-handling session, where you can get up close to some of the items in our 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.

This policy defines Wellcome Collection's processes and standards for lending and acts as a guide to borrowers about our loans processes.

Join this hands-on workshop to make your own unique soap and learn more about the history of soap, hygiene, and health from our collections.

Information to help you plan and prepare for your visit to 'Zines Forever!'.

Join us to explore 'Zines Forever! DIY Publishing and Disability Justice' with audio description and discover more about the objects through smell and touch.

Fertility treatment is physically and emotionally arduous, with no guarantees. Jessa Fairbrother describes her decision not to have IVF and the complexity of living with that choice.

Journey into the complex medical and religious history of women’s bodies from classical Greece to the modern day.

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.

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

A study day on HIV, AIDS and public health campaigns for students aged 14 to 19.

Amy Kavanagh, who is blind, shares the delight she feels in her young, sighted son, and her growing acceptance of the ways his experiences will differ from hers.

Join a crochet and knitting workshop where we’ll create textile artworks together.

Join a creative writing workshop, suitable for all levels, inspired by items from our collections.

Roxy Murray dives into the raw, intimate truths of sex and pleasure as a disabled person, sharing an unapologetic and explicit journey through her frustrations and desires.

Thank you to our contributors, consultants and critical friends who have been essential in informing and shaping this research.