Past exhibitions and events
Wellcome Collection will build on the success of previous Wellcome Trust exhibitions at the Science Museum, British Museum and its own TwoTen Gallery. Although now closed for visiting in person, many of these events and exhibitions have rich online content worth exploring.
Past events
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The Best of Medicine26 June 2008 What will you vote for? |
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Twenty Six Things Explored19 June 2008 A discussion of Marion Coutts's film commissioned by Wellcome Collection. |
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Shapeshifters and Transformers5 June 2008 Tales of metamorphosis from the Crick Crack Club. |
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Can Design Save Your Life?29 May 2008 An Art Fund event |
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Tough at the Top15 May 2008 What's up with women working in science? |
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Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta In Conversation10 May 2008 Join the exhibition's creators for an insight into the project |
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The Meat of the Tongue series5 May, 10 April, 13 March 2008 Poetry exploring aspects of the human body. |
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On Death24,26,27 April 2008 Can the dying teach us how to live? |
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What Makes a Good Death?17 April 2008 Finding a new language |
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In or Out?27 March 2008 Is it time we changed our organ donation system? Find out more and watch videos of interviews with the three speakers and audience interviews before and after the event. |
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An End to Feeling Shattered?28 February 2008 If you could live without sleep, would you? |
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Sleep Talk22-23 February 2008 Explore insomnia and sleeplessness through music, history, science and art. |
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Valentine Mash-up14 February 2008 Try something different on 14 February. |
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Catherine Yass: Artist in Conversation7 February 2008 Premiere of new film work |
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Late-night Film Festival25 January 2008 A special late-night opening to support Sleeping & Dreaming. |
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The Making of Our Parts10 January 2008 An evening of creation myths from the Crick Crack Club. |
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Medblogs and the Power of the Net13 December 2007 The growth of the digital soapbox. |
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The Mysteries of Dreaming6 December 2007 Join a discussion to unravel the surreal side of sleep. |
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Something Somatic29 November, 1, 2 December 2007 Sometimes being ill is the only way you find out what life is for. |
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Blood, Guts, Children and Power17, 18, 24, 24 November 2007 A walking tour which explored London's medical quarter. |
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The Clod Ensemble's Fantastic Voyage15 and 21 November 2007 Live music and performance inspired by a journey through the human body. |
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Materials Library presents Flesh9 November 2007 A full building spectacle which investigated the stuff of life. |
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Books to Make You Better8 November 2007 The third in a series of four discussions on medicine and literature. |
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Live Surgery1 November and 5 July 2007 Participants witnessed open heart surgery in our own auditorium. |
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Fat Britain30 October 2007 Who is responsible for tackling obesity? |
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Rebound Talk27 October 2007 A platform that discussed themes raised by the exhibition. |
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Listening to Voices25 October 2007 Why do people hear 'voices' and how should we treat them? |
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Who's Controlling Who?18 October 2007 We explored the pivotal choices around treating anorexia. |
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Doctor as Scribe11 October 2007 A discussion which explored the art of storytelling in medicine. |
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Growing up in a Mad World27 September 2007 Our panel and audience investigated adolescent mental health. |
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Bobby Baker: How to Live20, 22, 23 September 2007 Surreal performance on the oddness of therapy. |
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The Patient's Tale13 September 2007 The first Medicine and Literature event explored how stories make sense of suffering. |
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Heartfelt Emotions7-8 September 2007 A symposium which explored emotions from broken hearts to neuroscience. |
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Heavenly herbs and Hanuman the Healer4 August 2007 A storytelling event inspired by the Hindu epic Ramayana. |
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A Modern Miracle?26 July 2007 A discussion about the trouble with transplants. |
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Islam and Medicine19 July 2007 A discussion which explored the relationship between religion, culture and health. |
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The Shape of the Heart12 July 2007 A dicussion into why the ubiquitous emblem of love only vaguely resembles the human heart. |
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From the Heart30 June and 1 July 2007 To coincide with The Heart exhibition, this workshop explored the rhythm of the heart through dance, drums and design. |
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Curious Collections22 June 2007 As part of Wellcome Collection's opening week, this evening of stories, music and art celebrated collectors and collecting. |
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A Matter of Life and Death15 March 2007, Shoreditch Town Hall Visitors enjoyed a unique evening of film, music and refreshments that examined our fear of death as a vital force in our culture. |
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Travelling Apothecary16 September 2006, British Library Piazza A selection of the UK's most talented young designers hosted stalls peddling cures for modern-day ailments in the best Wild West medicine-show tradition. |
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Wellbeing in the 21st CenturyJuly and December 2006, Soho Theatre These intimate and informal events explored the impact of happiness, music and medicine on the nation's health, with experts from the arts, sciences and humanities. |
Past exhibitions
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Twenty Six Things29 May-29 June 2008 A film by the artist Marion Coutts, 'Twenty Six Things' 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. Commissioned by Wellcome Collection and shown there for a month, the film is an investigation into the vast museum of artefacts gathered by Henry Wellcome. |
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Life Before Death9 April-18 May 2008 Nothing teaches us more about life than death itself. Journalist Beate Lakotta and photographer Walter Schels asked 24 terminally ill people if they could accompany them during their last weeks and days. From these vigils came a series of insightful descriptions and photographic portraits taken before and after death. |
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Sleeping & Dreaming29 November 2007-9 March 2008 Why are scientists still preplexed by sleep? What do the insights that our dreams bring us mean? Our second major temporary exhibition explored this fascinating theme through the eyes of artists, scientists, film-makers and historians. Explore key items from the exhibition in our online taster and find out more about the associated events. |
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Rebound by Paul Ryan11-27 October 2007 Combining sketches, diary notes and wall drawings, Paul Ryan's exhibition illuminated the changing perception of HIV in London over a period of 20 years; from 1986, when the first clear information about HIV emerged, to 2006, when successful treatment regimes had been established. |
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The Heart21 June-16 September 2007 Highly acclaimed, Wellcome Collection's first temporary exhibition - 'The Heart' - looked at the evolution of our understanding of what the heart is, what it does and what it means. Explore objects and images from the histories of both science and art, as well as from everyday life, in our online taster. |
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Touch Me16 June-29 August 2005: Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) Our sense of touch was the focus of this unique contemporary design exhibition. |
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Future Face1 October 2004-13 February 2005: Medicine in Context Gallery, Science Museum, London Considering a future where digital faces become as 'real' as live ones and face transplants become a reality, 'Future Face' looked at how our notions of identity will be affected. |
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Asia: Mind Body Spirit13 October-12 December 2004: The Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London Exploring Asia's holistic approach to medicine, over 200 objects were on show. |
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Pain: Passion, compassion, sensibility13 February-20 June 2004: Medicine in Context Gallery, Science Museum This exhibition explored the cultural place of pain, and how science and other ways of thinking have shaped our beliefs, our understanding and our attempts to control it. |
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Treat Yourself: Health consumers in a medical age23 May-9 November 2003: Medicine in Context Gallery, Science Museum Contemporary and historical issues of the health consumer were examined through commissioned artworks, historical artifacts and exhibits of modern-day alternative and complementary health elixirs. |
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Four Plus: Writing DNA4 April-29 August 2003: TwoTen Gallery Commissioned work from contemporary artists focused on aspects of the four principal scientists involved in the discovery of the structure of DNA. |
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Metamorphing3 October 2002-16 February 2003: Science Museum Over 100 exhibits, many of which were on loan, were displayed with objects and archival material from the Science Museum and Wellcome Trust collections. |
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Outside Looking In - Photographs from TreeHouse by Stefanie Hafner1-31 October 2002: TwoTen Gallery This stunning photographic exhibition presented images of the day-to-day school life of young children with autism. |
