Museums · London
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection — museum and library in London, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
- Nearest railway station
- Euston Square · 0.1 km
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
About
Wellcome Collection is a museum in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 2007. Part of Wellcome Trust. Wikidata describes it as: "museum and library in London, United Kingdom". Coordinates: 51.5259°, -0.1339°.
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From the Wikipedia article
Wellcome Collection is a museum and library based at 183 Euston Road, London, England, displaying a mixture of medical artefacts and original artworks exploring "ideas about the connections between medicine, life and art". Founded in 2007, the Wellcome Collection attracts over 550,000 visitors per year. The venue offers contemporary and historic exhibitions and collections, the Wellcome Library, a café, a bookshop and conference facilities. In addition to its physical facilities, Wellcome Collection maintains a website of original articles and archived images related to health.
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Background
History
Wellcome Collection is part of the Wellcome Trust, founded by Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936). An extensive and enthusiastic traveller, Wellcome amassed a huge collection of books, paintings and objects on the theme of historical development of medicine worldwide. There was an earlier Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at 54a Wigmore Street, housing artefacts from around the world. The Wellcome Trust moved its administrative offices into their new Gibbs Building (designed for the Trust by Michael Hopkins and Partners) on the adjoining site in Euston Road, completed 2004, thereby creating an opportunity for a new public venue in the old Wellcome Building. The collection opened to the…
Description
Located on the 5th floor of the Collection, The Hub is a space for researchers to collaborate, which "brings together different voices and expertise as part of an experiment to see what new knowledge can be created". The first residents of The Hub, Hubbub, explored the dynamics of "rest, noise, tumult, activity and work" from October 2014 to July 2016. In October 2016-July 2018 Created Out of Mind, a group exploring dementia and the arts began their residency. "Many of the group’s core members came from the Dementia Research Centre (DRC) at University College London. The team aimed to explore what dementia means to all of us, as well as challenging definitions of the condition". From 2018…
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- Coordinates
- 51.5259, -0.1339
- District
- Camden
- Parish
- Camden, unparished area
- Postcode
- NW1 2BE
- Parliamentary constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Phone
- +44 20 7611 2222
- Established
- 2007
- Nearest railway station
- Euston Square — 0.1 km
- Opening
- Tu-We,Fr-Su 10:00-18:00; Th 10:00-20:00
- Official site
- www.wellcomecollection.org
Sources
- wikidata: Q7981191 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Wellcome Collection (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: The Wellcome Building.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Wellcome Collection?
- Wellcome Collection is in London, United Kingdom (postcode NW1 2BE), in the parish of Camden, unparished area.
- When was Wellcome Collection built?
- Built or established in 2007.
- Is Wellcome Collection free to visit?
- Yes, Wellcome Collection is free to enter.
- How do I get to Wellcome Collection?
- The nearest railway station is Euston Square, about 0.1 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode NW1 2BE.
- How busy is Wellcome Collection?
- Wellcome Collection draws around 550,000 visitors a year.