About us
Wellcome Collection...
Wellcome Collection is a unique mix of
galleries, events, and meeting, reading and eating places where you
can consider what it means to be human.
Sir Henry Wellcome
Learn about the Wellcome Trust's founder whose passion for
medicine led him to collect over a million objects. More about the man
Wellcome Trust
Established under Sir Henry's will in 1936, now the world's
largest independent charity funding research into human and animal
health. More about the charity
Wellcome Library
Part of Wellcome Collection, the Library has over 750 000 books
and journals, an extensive range of manuscripts, archives and
films, and Wellcome Images is one of the
Wellcome Library's major visual collections.
Through its collections and services, the Wellcome Library
provides insight and information to anyone seeking to understand
medicine and its role in society, past and present. More than 30
000 readers visit each year, including historians,
academics, students, health professionals and members of the
general public. More about the
Library