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• New head of Wellcome Library appointed

  22 Feb 2010

  A new Head of the Wellcome Library has been appointed. Dr Simon Chaplin started his new position at the beginning of February.

• Wellcome Collection raises curtain on its first major theatrical production

  02 Feb 2010

  Wellcome Collection is thrilled to announce the presentation of its first major performance arts production, 'Pressure Drop', starring Billy Bragg.

• The Identity Project launches in Scotland

  01 Feb 2010

  The Identity Project opens in Scotland with a series of exhibitions, talks and films in Dundee.

• China: Birth and belonging

  28 Jan 2010

  Wellcome Collection joins forces with Chinese Arts Centre to produce a major two-day symposium tackling the idea of identity in contemporary China.

• Profits from conference centre to go back to the Wellcome Trust

  14 Jan 2010

  The Wellcome Collection Conference Centre in London has announced that it will gift aid profits in the region of £750 000 back to the Wellcome Trust.

• The Identity Project is launched

  24 Nov 2009

  Who are you? And who do you think you are? The Identity Project is a nine-month season of activity from the Wellcome Trust.

• Wellcome Collection acquires 'Swine Flu' sculpture

  21 Sep 2009

  Wellcome Collection in central London has acquired a new and unusual glass sculpture of the H1N1 (swine flu) virus by the artist Luke Jerram.

• Identity: Eight rooms, nine lives

  01 Sep 2009

  As part of its ambitious season of activities focused on the endlessly fascinating topic of human identity, Wellcome Collection in London announces details of its next major temporary exhibition: 'Identity: Eight rooms, nine lives'.

• Paintings by Fredrick Cayley Robinson purchased for the Wellcome Library

  21 Aug 2009

  A series of large-scale painting by the fashionable turn-of-the-century British artist Fredrick Cayley Robinson has been purchased by the Wellcome Trust for public display in the Wellcome Library

• Mapping the Musical Brain

  21 Aug 2009

  A free Wellcome Collection event this September explores the power of music with leading authorities on the relationship between music and the brain