Our major new free exhibition seeks to explore what humans have done to brains in the name of medical intervention, scientific enquiry, cultural meaning and technological change.

Featuring over 150 artefacts including real brains, artworks, manuscripts, artefacts, videos  and photography, 'Brains' follows the long quest to manipulate and decipher the most unique and mysterious of human organs, whose secrets continue to confound and inspire.

'Brains' asks not what brains do to us, but what we have done to brains, focusing on the bodily presence of the organ rather than investigating the neuroscience of the mind.

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  Image galleries

  Browse through a range of images from the exhibition.

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  Events

  A series of events are taking place to support the 'Brains' exhibition.

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  Dissecting Brains

  A short documentary made at Hammersmith Hospital in London where recently preserved human brains are dissected according to an international protocol.

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  Axon

  Grow your neuron and connect new brain regions in this fast-paced game.

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  360 degree brain

  View and explore the external surface of a real brain.

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  Brains: the book

  Take a look inside the book that accompanies the exhibition.

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  Perspective tours

  Enhance your visit to 'Brains' by joining one of our free perspectives tours.

 

'Brains' image credit: Headache (2008) by Helen Pynor. Courtesy the artist and GV Art.