Events and Visits

This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session, on Thursday 27 January offers an opportunity to visit the Library’s Conservation studios. There, you’ll have a chance to meet our Conservation team, see the material they’re currently working on and also visit… Continue reading

In this oleograph (Wellcome Library no. 26596i) from Bombay, the apsara (nymph) Menakā attempts to seduce the yogi Viswāmitra. She succeeds, and a daughter Sakuntalā was born of their union. We might notice that, in this work by the Indian… Continue reading

We will be hosting another Medicine and Literature event on Wednesday 2 February, 19.00-20.15. Join us to hear author Gary Lachman investigate the life of psychologist Carl Jung. Gary’s talk will chart the development of Jung’s ideas, look into the… Continue reading

Tate Britain’s splendid exhibition of the works of the mighty Muybridge enters its final week: the last day is Sunday 16 January 2011 (open 10.00–18.00). It of course does full justice to his well-known photographs of things in motion which… Continue reading

Johnnie! How can we let this pass? Here is such an occasion of seeing gun-shot wounds come to our very door. Let us go! These were the words of the Scottish surgeon, anatomist and neurologist Charles Bell to his brother-in-law… Continue reading

This week saw the broadcast on BBC2 of the concluding part of Ian Hislop’s Age of the Do-Gooders, a series which set out to restore the reputation of Victorian social campaigners and reformers. The concluding episode – Sinful Sex and… Continue reading

This week’s free Wellcome Library workshops are: Plants and Medicine An introduction to contemporary and historical resources relating to the use of plants in medicine found in the Wellcome Library’s online and print collections. Tuesday 7th December, 2-3pm Finding visual… Continue reading

Material from the Wellcome Libary is currently on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, as part of a landmark exhibition. Epic of the Persian Kings: The Art of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh explores the monumental artistic legacy of one of the… Continue reading

This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session – on Thursday 2nd December – explores aspects of design and social history through items from the Library’s Ephemera collection. Our Insight sessions offer visitors to the Wellcome Library an opportunity to explore… Continue reading

This Friday (26th November) sees an all-building evening event in Wellcome Collection: Hands. Through a series of activities, talks and installations, the event will focus on the myriad ways our hands can sense, communicate and create. Hands will be examining… Continue reading