Discover all of the exhibitions, events and more on offer at Wellcome Collection, a free museum and library exploring health and human experience.

Album of photographs of No. 5 General Hospital at Rouen and No. 40 Field Ambulance, during the First World War RAMC/738/8 ...

Watercolour painting by A.O. Lamplough depicting the banks of the Nile in Egypt, showcasing serene landscapes and artistic beauty.

Posters by artists who turned their art into activism to support their communities and raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.

Today smoking is seen publicly as a deadly vice, privately perhaps as more of a guilty pleasure. Follow tobacco’s journey over the centuries from medical remedy to killer carcinogen.

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 ...

Laura Grace Simpkins attempts to untangle some uncomfortable truths about the social and environmental costs of making her medication.

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 ...

Like everyone, sex workers sometimes need medical or mental health support. But shame and stigma seriously affect attitudes and access.

A 19th-century campaigner who condemned the practice of keeping a dead person at home before the funeral started a gradual trend for outsourcing the preparation and storage of a body. But as a ...

Nymphomania has traditionally been defined as an increased and therefore disturbing sexual drive. It was thought of as a serious medical condition particularly affecting women, who were often given ...

The closure of Medicine Man is the result of several years’ research and reflection, and is the next step in updating how we display items from the collections.