Historian Molly Conisbee reflects on how we’ve paid our respects to the dead over the centuries – from lively gatherings ...

Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from ...

show credit information for image 'Swallow it whole : a zine about PrEP for women' Wellcome Collection began collecting zines in 2016 after a conversation between Wellcome librarians Nicola Cook, ...

How did a nut that’s been prized across West Africa for centuries come to be integral in the development of the world’s most ubiquitous soft drink? The story is a surprising mix of colonialism, ...

Myalgic encephalomyelitis, known as ME, as well as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), is a doubly invisible illness. Not only are the symptoms hard to see, but the disease also attracts little ...

show credit information for image 'The stuck tampon. Artwork: Tracy Satchwill for Wellcome Collection' The stuck tampon. Artwork: Tracy Satchwill for Wellcome Collection.

Building upon her photo story ‘No you’re not – a portrait of autistic women’, women from minoritised communities talk to photographer Rosie Barnes about their experiences of being autistic in a world ...

Pilgrims visiting a stick-like tree on a tiny, mid-loch island in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland will have, most likely, travelled for several hours to get there, undertaking the last leg by boat ...

Our building has step-free access. Exhibitions include audio description, British Sign Language and captions. show credit information for image 'The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained, a display at Wellcome ...

While recent research shows art in hospitals plays an active role in patients’ healing, its presence in medical buildings is nothing new. Art historian Anne Wallentine discusses why icons, frescoes, ...

show credit information for image 'Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London. Photo: Benjamin Gilbert' For a neuroscientist, there are few things as awe-inspiring as holding a human brain.