This exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.
Credit: Electrical and scientific instruments and apparatus : november 20th, 1899. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine ...
Credit: The American eclectic materia medica and therapeutics / John M. Scudder. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, ...
From January 2026 Wellcome Collection will close at 18.00 on Thursdays.Report of the Lynton District Cottage Hospital : 1932-33.
show credit information for image 'Legacies of eugenics in school' Legacies of eugenics in school. © Gergo Varga (varrgo.com) for Wellcome Collection. When A-level ...
How do you avoid catching the plague? Smoke constantly. Carry a sponge soaked in vinegar. Hang oranges studded with cloves around your house. This was the best medical advice available circa 1665, as ...
In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...
In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...
show credit information for image 'A covered corpse lying on a bed. Etching by Ch. Chaplin after Louis-Henri Deschamps.' When terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, ...
Wellcome Collection is built on collections assembled by Sir Henry Wellcome. In the early 20th century Wellcome founded a private historical medical museum closely linked with his pharmaceutical ...
show credit information for image 'Geothermal hot spring landscape in Railroad Valley, Nevada, where a Canadian mining company is drilling a new hole in an effort to find large deposits of lithium.
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback