Tours
Enhance your visit to Wellcome Collection by joining one of our free guided tours. There is no need to book (though spaces are limited). Just meet your guide beside the Information Desk on the ground floor at the times shown below.
If you are a group of more than eight people and would like to join a tour, please contact us in advance by completing the group visit enquiry form to organise a specially timed tour.
Gallery tours
These tours are led by one of our specially trained Visitor Services Assistants and last approximately 30 minutes.
Saturdays at 14.30: tour of ‘Medicine Now’
Sundays at 14.30: tour of ‘Medicine Man’
Medical London tours
Throughout November you can join a tour to discover London’s rich medical history through the strange artefacts in the ‘Medicine Man’ gallery. These tours last approximately 30 minutes.
Behind-the-scenes Tours
Join one of these walking tours to explore the building, the objects in the collection and the work of the Wellcome Trust in more depth. There will be no Behind-the-scenes Tour on Friday 26 December or Friday 2 January.
These tours take place on the first and last Friday of every month at 13.30.
These tours last for approximately one hour and there are limited seating opportunities.
BSL tours
Thursday 27 November, 18.00, BSL tour of the art works in the ‘ Medicine Now’ gallery.
Perspective tours
Join these experts for their personal insights into the ‘War and Medicine’ exhibition.
Thursday 4 December, 15.00, Emily Mayhew, historian and author of ‘The Reconstruction of Warriors’, 2004.
Friday 12 December, 15.00, Roger Cooter, Historian, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.
Thursday 18 December, Richard Hollingham, author of ‘Blood and Guts: A history of surgery’
Friday 16 January, Kate Forde, co-curator of the ‘War and Medicine’ exhibition
Friday 23 January, James Peto, Senior Curator, Wellcome Collection
Wednesday 28 January, Lucy Shanahan, co-curator of the ‘War and Medicine’ exhibition
