The big issue
Daniel Lambert. Wellcome Images We might have just missed Mardi Gras, but a new topic is up on Explore this week: obesity. Being overweight is widely recognised as a danger to health, but the social...
View ArticleObject of the Month: A Fat Lot of Good
'I Can't Help the Way I Feel', John Isaacs (2003) One of the overarching themes of our permanent gallery Medicine Now is the lived experience of illness. Juxtaposed with objects from clinical medicine,...
View ArticlePerspectives: I can’t help the way I feel
We are fascinated by the photographs our visitors take of the objects and spaces within Wellcome Collection. Thanks to Instagram, we can not only see what’s eye catching but also how people view us and...
View ArticleContemplating the Contemporary: Sculpture
Contemporary art is all around us, but we often still ask: “Is it art?” In the first of a new blog series exploring how and why we make art, Guillaume Vandame looks at sculpture in our Medicine Now...
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