A free museum and library exploring health
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Rooted Beings 24 March—29 August 2022 Free | Exhibition
‘Rooted Beings’ is a new major exhibition which invites us to reimagine our relationship with plants and fungi. Plants sustain life on earth, playing a vital role in healthy ecosystems and human societies. We rely on them for food and medicine, but what could we learn from these ancient, complex and sensitive beings?
To make your visit as safe and enjoyable as possible, please follow our safety measures inside the venue, including wearing a face covering unless you’re exempt. You no longer need to book a ticket to enter the building. |
 Events & exhibitions
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Reaching Out
Sat 5 Mar 10:00—16:00 Free | Festival | Relaxed
Think about social touch, via a series of events and activities that you can engage with online and in the building. This event is part of ‘Feeling Our Way’, a programme co-curated by Touretteshero which centres the experiences of disabled and neurodivergent people.
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Access to Birth Control in Early 20th-century Ireland
Tue 8 Mar 17:30—18:30 Exploring Research Seminar | Online | Discussion | English and Welsh Speech-to-text
Join Dr Laura Kelly to hear about the experiences of Irish men and women trying to access contraception in the early 20th century.
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Matrix Vegetal
Fri 25 Mar 19:00—20:30 Free | Online | Booking required | English and Welsh Speech-to-text
Artist Patricia Domínguez invites an archivist, an ethnobotanist and an indigenous healer to trace a matrix of interconnected histories. They will explore relationships between people and plants, and between Britain and Latin America, between colonial violence and present-day experience. |
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Book | Out now | £14.99
We’ve become used to thinking of plants as things for us to use: as food, tools or resources. But it’s time to change our minds. Coinciding with our upcoming Rooted Beings exhibition, ‘This Book is a Plant’ will be your handbook to the new reality: showing you a pathway to completely reimagine your relationship with a different kind of natural world.
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Stories |
Apocalypse How? Serial
We humans have predicted our own doom in a myriad of dramatic ways, from the Biblical apocalypse to modern disaster movies. Historian Charlotte Sleigh explores previous prophecies and sciences of annihilation, asking what we can learn from them as we face the threat of climate change.
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Beyond Wellcome |
Where the Leaves Fall Magazine
Magazine subscription | Issue 9 available now
Where the Leaves Fall is a quarterly print magazine and digital platform exploring humankind’s connection with nature. The latest edition of the magazine features a conversation with Rooted Beings curator Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz. For a 10% discount on subscriptions, use WELLCOME10.
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Care and An Extra Pair of Hands with Kate Mosse
Online | Booking required | Thu 31 Mar | £10 stream online, £15 stream plus copy of the book
Join Wellcome Collection published writer, Kate Mosse, in conversation with Deborah Moggach, as they explore the political and social issue of care – a topic thrown into sharp relief by the pandemic and overwhelmingly affecting women, whose voices urgently need to be heard.
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Our Future Planet
Exhibition | Free | Science Museum | Until Sep 2022 | Wed—Sun 10:00—18:00
Explore the cutting-edge technology and nature-based solutions being developed to trap carbon dioxide released by human activity. Join the debate about what measures we need to adopt to combat climate change. |
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