There is so much official talk (and number crunching) about happiness and well-eing nowadays. But where is joy? Unlike happiness, joy is a word we don’t use much today. We may discern it, perhaps ...

For a long time, nobody talked about menopause, and there is little evidence in the historical record of how women would have experienced this life stage in the past, if they even lived long enough to ...

Moving through the world, we are constantly engaging with our environment through our attention and emotions. Increasingly, as more people are living in built-up urban environments, we’re looking to ...

We are standing in front of a large book of prints. It includes black-and-white illustrations of the facial expressions drawn by the French painter Charles Le Brun. The illustrations capture different ...

We’re looking at one of the rarest and most precious objects in the Wellcome’s collection. It’s a folding almanac from the 15th century. It was designed to be a portable object that would have been ...

This exhibition is designed to transport you back in time to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield on the 1st of August 1980 at 2.54pm. It’s the moment I received the news of my autoimmune condition that ...

In this room you will walk through a series of monumental colour photographs of ancient forests in Japan and America. I travelled to the Hoh Rain Forest in Washington State, USA, in search of a place ...

Get in touch if you’ve got something to offer us for the collections We actively seek out and preserve contemporary and historical material that enhances our collections and brings in new perspectives ...

1.1 This agreement is for the hire of conference rooms and/or meeting rooms and/or function facilities and/or the provision of services including food and beverages (together the “Services") by ...

RawMinds was a group of young people aged 14 to 19 who met at weekends, evenings and in the school holidays to explore ideas about science and art. Each new group took on a fresh creative challenge ...

We lend material from our collections to museums and galleries in the UK and worldwide, and welcome enquiries from all institutions, big or small. We are always happy to discuss potential loans and ...

Join Sarah Dabbs and Polly Bodetto from our Visitor Experience and Library team in a science fiction writing workshop that uses a selection of images and texts on mushrooms and fungi for inspiration.