Wellcome Collection
Our free museum and library exploring the past, present and future of health.
We believe everyone’s experience of health matters. Through our collections, exhibitions and events, in books and online, we explore what health is and what it could be.
Wellcome Collection opened in London in 2007. The museum and library bring social, cultural, historical, personal and artistic perspectives to Wellcome’s work, informing the research we fund, interventions we support, and deeper understandings of health across society.
Our priorities
Wellcome Collection supports Wellcome’s vision of a healthier future for everyone by deepening society’s understanding of science and health. We do this by:
Giving voice to a radical imagination of what health is and what it could be.
Making meaningful connections between different perspectives and stories of health past, present and future, with our collections at the heart.
Our collections
Wellcome Collection cares for thousands of items relating to health, medicine and human experience, including rare books, artworks, films and videos, personal archives and objects.
Our collections are an unparalleled resource for exploring the place of science and health in global histories and potential futures.
Ways to engage with Wellcome Collection
In person
You can find Wellcome Collection near Euston station in London, UK. Exhibitions and events are always free. You can use our library and view items from our collections free of charge too – you may just need to book in advance.
Online
Thousands of items from our collections have been digitised, and copies are freely accessible online. Our digital collections cover a wide variety of topics, and are particularly strong in the areas of mental health, sex and sexual health, genetics, public health, and 19th-century books.
Our team
Melanie Keen
Director of Wellcome Collection
Anna Cornelius
Head of Communications & Marketing, Wellcome Collection
Daniel Martin
Associate Director, Collections and Digital, Wellcome Collection
Rachael Minott
Head of Wellcome Collection, Access, Diversity and Inclusion
Sam Owen
Associate Director, Strategy and Governance, Wellcome Collection
Sumitra Upham
Associate Director, Curatorial and Public Practice, Wellcome Collection
