Overview search

Join Deaf historian Peter Brown for a BSL tour of 1880 THAT, with a focus on the Milan Conference of 1880.

Join artist Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq as she introduces the gallery and interprets some of the audio artworks in the exhibition ‘Rooted Beings’.

Explore the voices and photographs of people with and without learning disabilities who have worked with creative arts company Heart n Soul over the last 30 years.

Join us for a weekend of performance, panel discussions, tours and workshops exploring the questions raised by our ‘Thirst: In search of Freshwater’ exhibition.

Can you help us better understand and care for the collections we hold?

We lend material from our collections to museums and galleries in the UK and worldwide.

'Finger Talk' is a new British Sign Language (BSL) artwork by Cathy Mager that invites you to enter a space shaped by deaf perspectives.

Grace Spence Green was a fourth-year medical student when a man jumped off a balcony in a shopping centre and landed on her. She recalls her first moments in the hospital as a newly disabled patient.

Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from our collections.

Find out how 'crip doula' zines offer support, advice, resources, and share the complex feelings and experiences around disability.

Discover how artist Liz Atkin has channelled the compulsion to pick her skin into an imaginative outlet for her feelings.

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

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

‘1880 THAT’ is an exhibition by the artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader. In their artworks they use humour and wordplay to explore sign language’s relationship to spoken language, and to draw attention to historic decision-making that still influences how we communicate today.

This playful exhibition of new and existing works by artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader explores sign language and the right to communicate.

This playful exhibition of new and existing works by artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader explores sign language and the right to communicate.

Get in touch if you have a question about visiting Wellcome Collection or want to know more about our collections.

Join a hands-on workshop where you can experiment with light, colour, shadows and projection to create your own large-scale, moving artworks.

Join this physical movement workshop to learn how to create silhouettes with your hands and body for storytelling, self-expression and communication.

Join us for a gallery tour and discussion on the historical context of zine-making.