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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

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