Wellcome Collection - the venue

Where else could you find an ancient mummy, Napoleon's toothbrush, Darwin's walking stick, a DNA-sequencing robot and a Marc Quinn sculpture all under one roof?

Over 1500 exhibits spanning six centuries, plus extensive collections in our library, portray the development of our understanding of wellbeing and human identity. From the macabre to the bizarre to the beautiful, you can view objects as disparate as a giant jelly baby and the guillotine blade used to execute Jean-Baptiste Carrier (an extreme Jacobin who reportedly committed atrocities during the French Revolution).