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The ‘look’ of the evil eye is believed to bring bad luck, illness or even death. This ancient curse might be deliberate, inflicted with an envious glare, or it could be accidental, the result of undue attention or excessive praise.

Join us for a day of activities exploring belief, birth and the body.

British Sign Language (BSL) has evolved over centuries, shaped by stories of exclusion, and opportunity. Deaf photographer Stephen Iliffe has photographed eight people from a multi-cultural deaf community, celebrating both the quiet nuance and the expressive power of BSL.

Join this workshop for reflections, conversations and creative activities around the theme of food and healing.

Wellcome Collection’s Shop is now open for festive gifts and late night shopping on Thursdays.

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.

A deeply human and compassionate re-evaluation of mental illness from the GP and bestselling author of 'Adventures in Human Being' and 'Recovery'.

Food diaries might appear to present a strictly factual record of dietary choices, but what they don’t include is the more revealing story, as Virginia Hartley suggests.

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.

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.

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.

From the elixir of life to radium, humans have always searched for a panacea: something to cure every ill. But instead it’s only highlighted our anxieties and preoccupations throughout history.