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The Wellcome Collection is built on collections assembled by Wellcome’s founder, Sir Henry Wellcome, who founded a private historical medical museum in the early 20th century.

The library's collections contain historical and contemporary books, artworks, archives and manuscripts exploring our personal and cultural relationships with health and medicine. There is an extensive collection of books on the history of modern health and medicine, as well as historical textbooks in fields such as anatomy, herbal medicine, surgery and subjects allied to health and medicine, including over 5,000 pre-16th-century texts.

The archive collections include unpublished drafts, notebooks, letters, photographs, personal papers and official records of over 800 people and organisations connected to health. The contemporary collecting policy aims to seek out a diversity of voices, including the patient’s voice, which is so often missing from histories of medicine and health.

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No.of places: 15 - 20  
Approx duration: 1hour 
Cost: Free but there is a donation box!   

Please contact Charmaine if you would like to come on this visit.