Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we all think and feel about health.
Through exhibitions, collections, live programming, digital, broadcast and publishing, we create opportunities for people to think deeply about the connections between science, medicine, life and art (from the website description)
I loved this Museum and highly recommend a visit if you can, I saw the permanent exhibits medicine now and medicine man these are some of the great things on show
Through exhibitions, collections, live programming, digital, broadcast and publishing, we create opportunities for people to think deeply about the connections between science, medicine, life and art (from the website description)
I loved this Museum and highly recommend a visit if you can, I saw the permanent exhibits medicine now and medicine man these are some of the great things on show
 Julian walker, Acts of faith this work looks at how the ideas of faith and hope and dependance are made in physical medicine this vast number of non prescription medicines are carved into images of the parts of the body they are meant to treat. I love the way this work is and plays with the idea of ex voto object / milagros and Egyptian amulet/charms |  Julian Walker, Acts of faith (detail) |
 these examples of mortuary crosses where made of lead. and were made to be placed on the victims of the plague in mass burials . |  this incredible cinese antique curio is actually multiple strings of teeth and was used at a shop front a dentists sign |