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| An Idiosyncratic A to Z of the Human Condition |
| 24 JUN–12 OCT |
| FREE | DROP IN |
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Drop in over the summer and participate in 26 #HumanCondition activities.
From Acts of Faith to Zoonoses, we present An Idiosyncratic A to Z of the Human Condition. Using Henry Wellcome’s strange and wonderful collection of objects (from medical artefacts and paintings to photography and sculpture), we invite you to consider: what is the human condition?
But our A to Z is far from perfect, and as fellow experts in what it is to be human, we want you to help shape this show. Leave your own human traces in the gallery itself or in the virtual world: @WellcomeCollection on Instagram or @ExploreWellcome on Twitter - #HumanCondition. See what everyone else has submitted so far on our Tumblr.
This exhibition runs ahead of our exciting development project, which we’ll be revealing from autumn 2014.
› Find out more about 'An Idiosyncratic A to Z of the Human Condition' |
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| EXHIBITION ACTIVITIES |
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For Your Contribution:
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| Each letter of our idiosyncratic A to Z comes with an invitation for you to participate. For example, under A for Acts of Faith, an illustrator will sketch out your accidents and near misses in the spirit of the displayed ex-voto paintings to the saints. Further along the alphabet, under F for Fears, we will ask you to kindly let go of your phobias. |
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Busking sessions
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| Our fabulous visitor experience team will further feed your curiosity with live ‘busking’ on topics such as neuroscience and phantom limb syndrome, and offer lessons in forgotten skills such as the origami of shoes, trephination and phrenology. Busking activities take place every day at 11.30–12.00 and 14.30–15.00, and also at 18.30–19.00 on Thursdays. |
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| FREE INSTALLATIONS |
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| The Generosity Plates |
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| LAST FEW DAYS - UNTIL 3 AUG |
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An installation by John Newling for Wellcome Collection.
The Generosity Plates by artist John Newling is an intervention in the Wellcome Collection café and foyer. Newling takes the Moringa oleifera tree, often called the miracle tree or famine tree, as a means of exploring our relationship with ecology and the values immanent in nature.
› The Generosity Plates – find out more |
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| Eye Contact |
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| UNTIL JULY 2015 |
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Eye Contact by Peter Hudson, 2014.
The Wellcome Trust held a competition to design a window display on the theme of the changing perception of images. Taking pride of place in the large windows of the Wellcome Trust building next door to us, Eye Contact responds to our ever-increasing reliance on the screen for human communication.
Pop next door to 215 Euston Road to see this striking display in action. |
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| WELLCOME KITCHEN |
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| Shrunken heads |
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Charlie Morgan does a double-take at the shrunken head (or tsantsa) to uncover the history and traditions behind the ritual. Explore where they were made and why – and why collectors are so fascinated by them.
› Shrunken heads – read now |
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| The story of Morbid Anatomy |
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Starting as a blog, Morbid Anatomy is now a museum in Brooklyn that explores the overlaps between art and medicine, death and culture. Founder Joanna Ebenstein recounts the journey in a celebration of the opening of the museum and invites you to marvel at all the curiosities she’s seen on her pilgrimages across the world.
› Morbid Anatomy – read now |
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| COMPETITION |
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| BEYOND WELLCOME |
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| Teenage Kicks |
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| 1–31 AUG |
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A season of film screenings and live events that celebrate the pains and explosive joys of the teenage spirit. Highlights range from the anarchist fantasy ‘If…’ and Larry Clark’s infamously grimy ‘Kids’ to ‘Carrie’, a bloody parable of adolescence.
› Teenage Kicks – find out more |
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