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Join Caroline Butten from our library team in an interactive workshop designed to help you explore our collections and inspire your own research projects.

Join Sauren Blaney from our library team in an interactive workshop designed to help you explore the zines in our collection.

Our collections are an incredible resource for all kinds of research, whether you are an artist or writer looking for inspiration, an academic researcher, or just curious about something in our exhibitions.

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

An illuminating, life-affirming book by Daniel Tammet that celebrates the power and beauty of the neurodivergent mind.

In this sensitive series of portraits and interviews, photographer Rosie Barnes acknowledges the voices and experiences of autistic women.

Write a letter to your future self to celebrate your past achievements, no matter how big or small.

Join a creative writing workshop, suitable for all levels, inspired by the mythical monsters in our collections.

We offer daily tours and discussions, including a range of accessible tours. Drop-in for a 30 minute session and explore different perspectives and stories of health past, present and future.

Our collections are available at Wellcome Collection and are on display at the London Science Museum’s medical galleries. You’ll also find thousands of digitised items from our collections online.

Get in touch if you’ve got something to offer us for the collections.

Join a tour of the 'Expecting' display, celebrating Black cultural and spiritual experiences of pregnancy and childbirth across centuries.

Discover how items in the 'Being Human' exhibition connect with the remarkable story of Henrietta Lacks.

Join Claudia Hammond and guests as they delve into the latest evidence on weight loss injections.

In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

Iconic graphic design devised to admonish, amuse, inform and empower.

From anti-masturbation rings to a tonsil guillotine, these specially selected pieces might make your skin crawl.

An uncanny resemblance to today’s Twitter tiffs characterises a 17th-century argument about demons. Read what happened when the printing presses went into overdrive.

In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.