Press
For media enquiries please contact:
Mike Findlay, Wellcome Collection Media Officer
T +44 (0)20 7611 8612
E m.findlay@wellcome.ac.uk
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16 December 2008
Restaurant Associates retains Wellcome Trust contract
Restaurant Associates (RA), the executive dining sector of Compass Group UK & Ireland, has retained its contract with the UK's largest charity the Wellcome Trust for a further three years. The deal will see RA continue to supply Wellcome Collection its catering services.
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04 December 2008
Wellcome Collection wins silver in Visit London's Attraction of the Year awards
Wellcome Collection, the unique gallery and museum on London's Euston Road that explores the relationships between medicine, life and art, has scooped a silver award at this year's Visit London Awards ceremony.
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02 December 2008
The Watch Man: An installation by Shona Illingworth
A major multi-media installation exploring trauma memory by artist Shona Illingworth will be shown as part of ''War and Medicine', this year's major temporary exhibition at Wellcome Collection.
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21 November 2008
War artist's trip to Afghanistan at the heart of new exhibition
New work by contemporary artist David Cotterrell will be unveiled for the first time as part of a major temporary exhibition - 'War and Medicine' - launching on 22 November at Wellcome Collection.
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22 October 2008
Tune-In: Music with the Brain in Mind
A free weekend event on Saturday 8 November at Wellcome Collection explores improvisation and wellbeing.
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17 October 2008
Make a Piano in Spain
A newly commissioned work by artist John Newling for Wellcome Collection, the 'Make a Piano in Spain' installation will be on display from 15 October to 14 November.
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14 October 2008
Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures
A unique celebration of and guide to London's medical history will be published on 10 November 2008 by Strange Attractor Press, in association with Wellcome Collection.
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14 October 2008
Clarke's Cabinets of Cures: Blood, Mermaids and Madness
'Clarke's Cabinets of Cures' by Mark Clarke is a series of mismatched cabinets with fascinating stories to tell, on display at Wellcome Collection from 14 October.
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15 September 2008
Story of early eastern medicine to be revealed to the world
A new partnership between the Wellcome Library, one of the world's leading resources for the history of medicine, and Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) in Egypt, the leading institution for the documentation of Egyptian, Arabic and Islamic cultural heritage will reveal the story of early medicine in the Eastern world.
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10 September 2008
War and Medicine at Wellcome Collection
A groundbreaking exhibition at Wellcome Collection will consider the continually evolving relationship between warfare and medicine, beginning with the disasters of the Crimean War in the 1850s and continuing through to today's conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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22 August 2008
Wellcome Collection listings September-December 2008
Visit our new exhibition, join expert guides in a series of walking tours, attend our new 'Supper Club' and discover much more at Wellcome Collection this Autumn.
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18 August 2008
Guts, instinct and evidence
Personal papers of the late Sir Bernard Spilsbury, 'the father of modern forensics', have been purchased at Sotheby's by the Wellcome Library, Europe's leading resource for the study of the history of medicine.
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22 July 2008
Three-day drawing festival launches The Big Draw 2008
The Campaign for Drawing, Bow Arts Trust and University College London present 'Drawing on Life' at Wellcome Collection and UCL, 26-28 September.
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03 July 2008
Shifts in Perception, 18 and 19 July
An event for the inquisitive, examining the extraordinary ways we perceive the world around us, will take place at Wellcome Collection on 18 and 19 July 2008.
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03 July 2008
The Wellcome Debate
Join a panel of experts from the fields of genetics, biomedicine, private business, policy and the media to explore issues relating to genetic testing on Thursday 10 July at Wellcome Collection.
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19 June 2008
Wellcome Collection announces 300 000 visits in first year
London's latest cultural venue, Wellcome Collection, today announces that it has attracted over 300 000 visits since launching, in time for celebrating its first birthday on 21 June.
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03 June 2008
Skeletons: London's buried bones at Wellcome Collection
Twenty-six skeletons from the Museum of London's Centre for Human Bioarchaeology will go on display at Wellcome Collection, as part of a new exhibition that reveals what lies just metres beneath our feet.
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08 May 2008
Twenty Six Things: A film by Marion Coutts
'Twenty Six Things' is a new film by the artist Marion Coutts, commissioned by Wellcome Collection. It is based on a simple memory game in which participants are shown a collection of objects, some of which might change position when they look away. The film is an investigation into the vast museum of artefacts gathered by Henry Wellcome.
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07 May 2008
Nobody Lives Forever by Judith Johnson
Innovative theatre combines with lively debate in a groundbreaking new play: 'Nobody Lives Forever' explores the social, moral, scientific and political questions raised by stem cell research and applies it to everyday living.
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29 April 2008
From Atoms to Patterns opens
A unique exhibition of crystal structure designs from the 1951 Festival of Britain opens at Wellcome Collection.