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Finding the Truth in a Nutshell
We wrote about Frances Glessner Lee and her “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death” in a previous post. Erin N. Bush got the chance to visit the eighteen original Nutshells and has turned her photos of...
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#EmptyWellcome
Last month we invited a small group of high profile London Instagramers to Wellcome Collection before we opened to the public. The idea was to celebrate our new and reopened spaces after our major...
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#MuseumInstaSwap: Through a different lens
At the end of August we teamed up with nine other London museums to swap our collections and themes on Instagram for #MuseumInstaSwap. Russell Dornan writes about the project's inception, how it went...
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Contemplating the Contemporary: Photography
Contemporary art is all around us, but we often still ask: “Is it art?” In this blog series exploring how and why we make art, Guillaume Vandame looks at mixed media and collage in our Medicine Now...
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Creating the creative: Tibet’s Secret Temple
You may have seen the campaign for our recently opened Tibet's Secret Temple exhibition: lush foliage and dramatic clouds, all cut out of paper and set against a crisp teal colour. If you've ever...
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How often have you been bothered by any of the following problems?
Wellcome Collection explores what it means to be human through medicine, art and science. So when our Web Editor, Russell Dornan, saw someone doing the same in the form of a photography piece last...
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Instagram takeover
Next week Wellcome Images are taking over our Instagram account to showcase a selection of this year's winning images. As if one visual feast isn't enough, we'll be taking over the 52museums account at...
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London Drawing in the Reading Room
Earlier this year, art collective London Drawing took over an area of our Reading Room to engage visitors and inspire them to get creative. The stand out activity was their Renaissance Selfies,...
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A drop in the ocean: Daniel Regan
‘Bedlam: the asylum and beyond’ interrogates the original ideal that the asylum represented – a place of refuge, sanctuary and care – and asks whether and how it could be reclaimed. This blog series...
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Queer Territory: Claude Cahun and a land without labels
In the first of our posts for LGBT History Month, Sarah Jaffray looks at how the artist Claude Cahun explored the parodies of gender. In her 1930 auto-biography Disavowals artist-writer Claude Cahun...
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