Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road
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

 Links

Collection details

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

Key artists and exhibits

  • Charles Darwin
  • Napoleon
  • Mark Quinn
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.

Exchanges at the Frontier with Iain Couzin

  • 12 December 2013 7-8:30pm

Iain Couzin specialises in collective animal behaviour, a phenomenon that encompasses flocking birds, shoaling fish and swarming locusts.

He is a Scottish biologist based at Princeton University in the USA and has conducted the world's most detailed study into locust swarms in the desert of Mauritania, west Africa.

These vast clouds of locusts devastate crops across the globe and lead directly to famine; his research uncovers ways to trick them into self-destruction and has huge implications for global food supply and health.

His research into swarming behaviour challenges accepted orthodox theories of collective animal behaviour, while also having implications for human behaviour and crowd dynamics.

Admission

This event is FREE. Booking required. Tickets will be available online from 11.00 on Friday 29 November.

Website

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/exchanges-at-the-frontier-20-1/iain-couzin.aspx

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