Wellcome Images - 2000 years of human culture

Wellcome Images is one of the Wellcome Library's major visual collections and also forms part of Wellcome Collection. It is one of the world's richest and most unique image collections, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and science. Whether it's medicine or magic, the sacred or the profane, science or satire - you'll find more than you expect.

This unrivalled collection contains historical images from the Wellcome Library collections, Tibetan Buddhist paintings, ancient Sanskrit manuscripts written on palm leaves, beautifully illuminated Persian books and much more.

The Biomedical Collection holds over 40 000 high-quality images from the clinical and biomedical sciences. Selected from the UK's leading teaching hospitals and research institutions, it covers disease, surgery, general healthcare, sciences from genetics to neuroscience including the full range of imaging techniques.

Wellcome Image Awards
The Wellcome Image Awards reward contributors for their outstanding work and winners are chosen by a panel of experts. The 10th round of the awards falls in 2009 and the winners are exhibited on the first floor of Wellcome Collection (opposite 'Medicine Now') between 15 October 2009 and spring 2010. The images can also be viewed on the website for  Wellcome Image Awards.