Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London
London
Greater London
NW1 2BE
England

Website

www.wellcomecollection.org

E-mail

General enquiries

info@wellcomecollection.org

Media enquiries

t.morley@wellcome.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7611 2222

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Wellcome Collection is the free visitor destination for the incurably curious. It explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future.

Inside this impressive building you will find three gallery spaces, a public events programme, the Wellcome Library, a café, a bookshop, conference facilities and a members' club.

Venue Type:

Gallery, Science centre

Opening hours

Mon
10.00-18.00 (galleries closed, except public holidays)

Tues
10.00-18.00 (Library until 20.00)

Wed
10.00-18.00

Thurs
10.00-22.00 (Library until 20.00)

Fri
10.00-18.00

Sat
10.00-18.00 (Library until 16.00)

Sun
11.00-18.00 (Library closed)

Closed 24-26 December

Admission charges

FREE to everyone

Collection details

Fine Art, Medicine, Natural Sciences, Personalities, Science and Technology

Key artists and exhibits

  • Charles Darwin
  • Napoleon
  • Mark Quinn
Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.

Souzou

4 April — 30 June 2013 *on now

From eight-metre cityscapes to armies of miniature figurines, mouth-made sculptures to arresting portraits and exquisitely woven textiles, Wellcome Collection's spring exhibition, Souzou, is the UK's first major display of Outsider Art from Japan, made by residents and attendees of social welfare facilities across the country

Suitable for

  • 18+

The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone: Spazio di Luce

4 September 2012 — 1 August 2013 *on now

For the latest Bloomberg Commission, he has created a twelve metre bronze cast of a tree, with a radiant gold-leaf interior, which spreads across the columned gallery.

Suitable for

  • Any age

Admission

Free.

Website

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/the-bloomberg-commission-giuseppe-penone-spazio-di-luce

Events details are listed below. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all. For events that don't have a specific date see the 'Resources' tab above.

It'll be all Wrong! on the night as Wellcome Collection admits mistakes

5 July 2013

Slapstick and nonsense are on the bill with a carnival of fools and the rare chance to discover your inner idiot in a clowning master class with director John Wright. Share your shame by telling us your worst mistakes, and hear others' in our error confessional.

The Wrongness Cabaret gathers a roll call of comedians, scientists, storytellers and magicians to fawn on failure and delight in disaster, whilst the Wellcome Library will be taken over by games designed to reward creative error in the Wrongness Championships.

Around the galleries there will be interactive tests which reveal conviction in the face of confounding evidence, courtesy of Neil Garrett and colleagues from UCL's Affective Brain Lab, disarming perception illusions which make strangers of our brains and bodies, and the Unbelievable Truth of Medical History which challenges us to separate breakthrough from blunder in a quick-fire quiz about disproved cures and theories.

A bar will be open (staff will forgive requests for drinks mistaken not stirred) and there'll be nothing to fault with the delicious food served at the Peyton and Byrne cafe. Blackwell's bookshop will provide plenty of material to challenge what you thought you knew to be true. Sometimes discovering you're wrong is just the beginning of a new adventure.

Suitable for

  • 18+

When

7-11pm

Admission

Admission free. Tickets available on the night of the event only.

Website

http://www.wellcomecollection.org

Wrong!

5 July 2013

Wellcome Collection is getting off on the wrong foot with an all building spectacular celebrating human failures, fallacies and faults. Wrong! brings together scientists, magicians, film-makers and performers for an evening of errors. Leave your right-mindedness at the door and enter a world led astray, where pleasures are irrational and self-deception is smiled upon. We all make mistakes, and Wrong! gives us the right to enjoy them.

Suitable for

When

7-11pm

Admission

free

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