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Wellcome's free museum and library for the incurably curious
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NOW OPEN, UNTIL 26TH JAN 2020
FREE EXHIBITION | DROP IN
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Influential photographer Jo Spence’s work documents her diagnosis of breast cancer and subsequent healthcare regime throughout the 1980s. Her raw and confrontational photography will be shown alongside Oreet Ashery’s award-winning miniseries ‘Revisiting Genesis’, 2016, which explores death and dying in the digital era.
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WED 12 JUNE, 19.00-20.30
FREE | BOOK NOW
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Listen in on a recording of a BBC World Service programme, to hear about the findings of a major new global survey investigating attitudes to vaccines. The Wellcome Global Monitor asked people around the world whether they think vaccines are safe, effective and important for children to have.
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THU 13 JUNE, 18.00-19.00
FREE | BOOK NOW
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Hear the story of Mary Toft, the ordinary 18th-century woman who managed to convince doctors that she had given birth to rabbits.
Consider the personal and political context in which this scandalous hoax existed and gain a deeper insight through seeing historic representations.
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WED 26 JUNE, 13.00-14.00
FREE | FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED
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What role does design play in the mistakes we make? Join Human Factors researcher Dominic Furniss to learn about his work to reduce human error through better design and procedures; from everyday things to hospitals and chemical plants.
Please note that as this event is taking place in the Reading Room, food and drink should be enjoyed elsewhere before or after the event.
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THU 27 JUNE, 18.00-18.45
FREE | BOOK NOW VIA EMAIL
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What can magic and conjuring tell us about the human mind? Join us for a BSL-interpreted tour of our exhibition Smoke and Mirrors to explore how our biases affect our perception and whether our senses can be hacked.
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STARTS 20 JULY
FREE | APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN
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Are you a performer with magical skills and deft sleight of hand – or is this something you’d love to learn?
We’re looking for young people aged 14-19 interested in magic, performance and how tricks work on the minds of an audience, to join our free ten-day summer project.
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FRI 14 JUNE - SUN 6 OCT 2019
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY
EXHIBITION DAY PASS: £5 (£2.50 CONCESSIONS)
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Featuring the work of over seventy photographers and artists, Urban Impulses embraces half a century of Latin American photography, from 1959 to 2016.
Offering a diversity of artistic approaches, from street documentary to collage, the show traces a constellation of significant historical events that have marked the region.
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