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Rudy Loewe’s new exhibition explores the lived experience of Black people whose mental healthcare is shaped by racism, and reimagines an equitable mental healthcare system.

Wellcome Collection presents Rudy Loewe’s ’Intimacies of Care – Spaces of Grief and Possibility‘, an exhibition reimagining healing and mental health through community, hope, and radical care.

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Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.

Menopause can be tough when nobody talks about it and all the stereotypes are negative, but it can also be transformative, marking the start of a new stage of life - cronehood.

Join our visitor experience facilitators for a day of slow looking and immerse yourself in the act of observation.

Join our visitor experience facilitators for a day of 'slow looking', where we'll take time to study and reflect on artworks in our collection.

Join us for a group session of gentle movement for wellbeing, led by dance artists from Micro Rainbow.

This exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

Through the stories of six hospice and palliative care workers, photographer Anna Gordon reflects on the meaningful moments that shape our final days.

This display traces stories of protest, care and resilience in the history of HIV, from 1980s Britain to the Global South.

Kate Mosse argues that how we define ‘care’ matters, and explores the reciprocity of caring and being cared for.

Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.

Explore how beauty connects to power, ownership and identity in this creative workshop combining open discussion and art-making inspired by ‘The Sable Venus’.

Gout became known as a fashionable disease of the rich and powerful, but did its notoriety diminish the personal experiences of this painful condition?

To reach your 70s with over 300,000 Twitter followers or running a music festival is not the stereotypical image of retirement. But does this energetic engagement with life equal happiness?

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Read a complete set of gallery captions for Being Human, our gallery that explores how we think and feel about ourselves, our bodies and our relationship with the world around us.

Join us for an afternoon of activities to explore LGBTQIA+ experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and family making.

Join us for a session inspired by medieval bestiaries, where we'll use archival imagery to celebrate and contemplate the roles animals play in shaping our lives and health.