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Come along to an informal zine-making workshop inspired by the themes of health, wellbeing and the human condition.

Join artists and writers in our series of online events about mental health care and wellbeing. Can we re-envision how we look after ourselves and one another?

Experience the impossible with Steve Bagienski, a magician, scientist and psychologist who researches how we feel when we watch and learn to perform magic. You’ll watch conjuring tricks and experience fake mind-reading that will reveal how easy it is to believe in magic and pseudoscience. The performances on Thursday 8th August will be transcribed (STT) by StageText.

Find out how paranormal phenomena can be explained by psychology with Professor Christopher French, an expert in paranormal experiences, cognition and emotion. You’ll discover how cognitive biases affect perception, memory, and reasoning, but also are a fundamental part of what it means to be human.

In this drawing class with a difference, you’ll first create the set design for the live models, before drawing them posed in your setting.

Join our library team in a creative writing workshop inspired by subjects such as disability, memory and magical realism.

Take an interactive journey through the grounds of St George’s Gardens in Bloomsbury and reimagine your relationship with the natural world.

Watch a newly commissioned performance created by artist Eduardo Navarro that breaks down the boundaries between humans and trees.

Listen in to the recording of a radio programme about building a brand-new healthcare system.

Watch author Harry Parker in conversation with journalist David Robson, exploring how technology, robotics and artificial intelligence are changing what it means to be human.

Join Claudia Hammond from the BBC and guests to discuss whether allergies are still on the increase and what can be done to prevent them.

In this interactive workshop, you’ll work with professional game designers to create your own text-based game on iPads.

Your Biology A-level students will hear from scientists, doctors and media professionals about the recent Ebola crisis.

Write or draw your story onto a cut-out body part to contribute to a colourful collective body in this creative workshop.

Using the ‘Regimen Sanitatis’, published by the famous medieval medical school of Salerno, this talk will explore how vernacular medical knowledge was spread among ordinary people in early modern Italy.

A look at the variety of Indian medical practice over the centuries.

Join scholar, singer and writer Rianna Walcott for a tour of the ‘Tranquillity’ and ‘Joy’ exhibitions.

Join our Visitor Experience Assistants in conversation about our collections, and share your thoughts on creating a replacement for ‘Medicine Man’.

Explore the relationship between colonialism and medicine today on a day of thought-provoking discussions.