Our new exhibition explores experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to older age, and asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better.

Over 1.1 million items exploring art, health, culture and what it means to be human. Thousands of digitised materials are readily available online for you to explore and download under a range of free ...

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Our building has step-free access. Exhibitions include audio description, British Sign Language and captions. show credit information for image '‘Thirst: In Search of Freshwater’ an exhibition at ...

My whole life had been marked by pain that I never had a name for. My family and I always thought that I just had a bit of a ‘weird body’. I experienced dislocations, subluxations, slipped disks, and ...

show credit information for image 'Opium-den in the East End of London, 1874' There is something rich and romantic about the Victorians and their drugs. The works of Thomas De Quincey, Arthur Conan ...

Wellcome Collection’s vision is of a world where everyone’s experience of health matters and we have an ambitious strategy to help us make that a reality. Our Access Policy sets out our commitment to ...

From animal-bladder skin to houndstooth check and sequins, face masks have undergone many revolutions in design over the centuries. Writer Lizzie Enfield traces their history in pictures.

show credit information for image 'Geothermal hot spring landscape in Railroad Valley, Nevada, where a Canadian mining company is drilling a new hole in an effort to find large deposits of lithium.

There are over 1.1 million items in our library, exploring art, health, culture and what it means to be human. The library is free to visit and open to everyone over the age of 18, whether you’re ...

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