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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.

This autumn, Wellcome Collection presents ‘Expecting: Birth, Belief and Protection’, a new display connecting protective practices and beliefs in medieval childbirth with contemporary responses to pregnancy and maternal health.

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.

Lights Up sessions are an opportunity to explore our exhibition ‘Thirst: In Search of Freshwater’ with brighter lighting conditions across the gallery. There's also an audio described tour available during each session.

Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.

Wellcome Collection has returned an urn containing human ashes to Mindelunden i Ryvangen, a memorial park in Denmark, for burial.

The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.

Focusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.

How the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.

Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?

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

Human remains make up an important part of the collections vested in Wellcome Collection by its founder, Sir Henry Wellcome.

Micha Frazer-Carroll, uncovers the historical links between enslavement and disability to better understand her family’s complex attitudes towards healthcare.

Join artist Andrea Mindel for a hands-on workshop exploring creativity, mental health and everyday materials.

Throughout history, medics and campaigners have tried to stamp out masturbation – but is modern science transforming its reputation?