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

Yaw Afrim Gyebi travels through Ghana to meet the people who grow and use kola nut for its many practical and symbolic purposes.

Nine people with ME reveal their unremitting struggles as they negotiate life with their illness, including their battles to be believed, diagnosed and supported.

This evolving display features a series of stories about the entangled global histories, vibrant traditions, and new innovations connected to the kola nut.

Art historian Anne Wallentine examines art in hospital settings – from its Christian devotional origins to its healing role in modern healthcare buildings.

While recent research shows art in hospitals plays an active role in patients’ healing, its presence in medical buildings is nothing new. Art historian Anne Wallentine discusses why icons, frescoes, ...

Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.

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.

Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.

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 ...

Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – within the NHS, and how women like her are consequently turning to other sources of medical support.

Join Ben Gazur as he explores the origins, relics and power of Christian martyrs, and their continuing relevance for Catholics in the 21st century.