Monday 28 August 2017

Wellcome Collection - What's On in September

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Wellcome Collection, A Free Destination for the incurably curious. What's On
 
Booking for events opens at 11.00 on Friday 25 August.
 
You can book online with our ticketing system by following the links below, or you can call us on 020 7611 2222.
  NEW EXHIBITION
7 SEP 201714 JAN 2018
FREE | DROP IN
Explore the relationship between graphic design and health in our new exhibition.

With over 200 objects including hard-hitting posters, flashing pharmacy signs, and digital teaching aids, 'Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?' will consider the role of graphic design in constructing and communicating healthcare messages around the world and will show how graphic design has been used to persuade, to inform and to empower.

The postcard book ‘Graphic Warnings’ accompanies the exhibition.

  CLOSING SOON
UNTIL 8 OCT 2017
FREE | DROP IN
Our summer exhibition shines a light on how each of us connects with nature. It displays objects borrowed from members of the public that tell a story about their relationship with nature. Together the exhibition creates a collective snapshot of how we think about nature in the 21st century, and explores how the health of our planet is intricately bound up with the behaviours and values of the people who inhabit it.

The book 'Animal Vegetable Mineral' accompanies the exhibition.  
       
  SYMPOSIUM
SATURDAY 30 SEP, 10.00–18.00
£25 full price /£20 concessions | BOOK NOW
Our interactions with nature are full of adaptations and modifications, from how we manipulate the world around us to the evolutionary process itself. But how should we adapt to the environmental challenges we face today?

Join us for a day of in-depth discussions – with perspectives from history, contemporary science and society – as we approach the end of our year-long exploration into our relationship with nature.
           
  FREE EVENTS
FRIDAY 1 SEP, 18.00–22.00
FREE | DROP IN
Join us on the first Friday of the month for extended gallery opening hours, music, cocktails and tours of exhibitions.

This is a great chance to relax and see the exhibitions outside of our usual opening hours.

WEDNESDAY 20 SEP, 13.00–14.00
FREE | DROP IN
Turner syndrome is a chromosome disorder that has significant physical health symptoms as well as a profound impact on the social and emotional wellbeing of the girls it affects.

Come and hear more about Jeanne Wolstencroft’s work exploring the links between rare genetic disorders and
mental health.

THURSDAY 28 SEP, 18.00–19.30
FREE | BOOK FROM 25 AUG
Brazilian sculptor Juliana Cerqueira Leite will present a performative talk on her artist book 'A Potential Space'. Her book is a work of ‘anatomical fiction’ that reimagines how the vagina is represented. The talk will be followed by a Q&A with curator Nora Heidorn to further explore the medical gaze on the female body.

 YOUTH EVENT
SATURDAY 16 SEP, 14.00–17.00
FREE | DROP IN
If you’re aged 14–19, drop by to learn how to create a graphic novel in a series of different workshops inspired by our exhibition Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?

Image by Alex Demetris, from ‘Dad’s Not All There Any More’

  COMING SOON
FRIDAY 13–SUNDAY 15 October
FREE | BOOK FROM 29 SEP
Join BBC Radio 3 and Wellcome Collection to explore music and memory with a special weekend of live broadcasts, concerts and events.

With the help of acclaimed musicians, scientists and experts, ‘Why Music? The Key to Memory’ explores the implications of music’s unique capacity to be remembered, and keep us in the moment, through wide-ranging discussions and live performances.

  BOOKS
£12.99 | AVAILABLE NOW
Celebrate the beauty and strangeness of the 'infographics', charts and ordering systems used to classify and understand nature in the 18th and 19th centuries, from taxonomy diagrams to distribution maps and colour dictionaries.
       
Published by Wellcome Collection to accompany 'A museum of modern nature'.
       
›  Animal Vegetable Mineral – find out more
£9.99 | AVAILABLE FROM 7 SEP
A collection of vintage postcards celebrating the style and wit of 20th-century health warnings and the iconic graphic design devised
to admonish, amuse, inform and empower.
  
Published by Wellcome Collection to accompany 'Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?'.
                 
£14.99 | AVAILABLE NOW
'Sound' draws on the extraordinary experience of losing your hearing and – as Bella Bathurst eventually did – getting it back, revealing how our relationship with sound is both personal and far, far more complex than we might expect. As heard on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week'.
        
Published by Wellcome Collection.
      
£16.99 | AVAILABLE NOW
What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death – and come back? In this book, historian Emily Mayhew explores the modern reality of medicine and injury in wartime, from the trenches to Afghanistan, and rehabilitation wards.

Published by Wellcome Collection.

 WTF: WONDER THINK FIND
Discover the human stories and personal tragedies behind some deadly epidemics in our six-part series, The Outsiders.


Before the invention of x-ray there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open. Read our brief history of human dissection.

Over the last few weeks, you’ve been sharing and responding to nature images on themes including WILD, DEAD and GREEN. Find out which resonate most, and submit your own.