WELLCOME COLLECTION
We are a free museum and library, located in central London, that aims to challenge how people 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. All our exhibitions and most of our events are free and open to everyone.
We are part of the Wellcome Trust, which exists to improve health by helping great ideas to thrive. We support researchers, we take on big health challenges, we campaign for better science, and we help everyone get involved with science and health research. We are a politically and financially independent foundation.
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We're delighted to wellcome you back to our cafe in Wellcome Collection, which reopened this week 🙌🏽
Cakes, carbon neutral coffee, lunches, snacks ... Pair this with a day in the museum & you're in for a treat!
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The Wellcome Collection reopened today! Brighten up your January with a trip to their current exhibition 'Joy' 🌟 which includes this drawing by Headway artist Sam Jevon!
Bring some joy to January! We're focusing on happiness, calm and tranquility with our new display at Aldgate Library, in honour of On Happiness, a season of free events at the Wellcome Collection 😀
What things do you recommend that improve your wellbeing?
👋 Say hello to one of our newest board members, Sam Allen!
Sam is an award-winning arts engagement specialist and Founder and Director of Creative Arts Social Consulting Ltd. Sam is a passionate advocate of anti-racism and social justice in the arts and heritage sectors. Since 2012, she has worked to dismantle structural inequities to catalyse positive and sustainable change by developing audience engagement strategies, improving opportunities for marginalised people in the workforce and building inclusive business development plans to positively transform organisational cultures inside and out.
Sam has worked with a range of leading cultural and educational organisations in the UK and internationally, such as the British Council, the National Gallery Singapore, the Wellcome Collection, the Black Cultural Archives, Inc Arts UK, Turner Contemporary, The Horniman Museum and Gardens, Tate Modern, Culture&, University of Leeds, Singapore International Photography Festival, Henley Business School, Singapore Writers Festival and World Press Photo.
Sam is a Director and Partnerships Lead of Museum Detox CIC, a network for people of colour working in museums and heritage. She is also the incoming Chair of the Board for Seeta Patel Dance (Seeta Patel Dancer), Bristol. Sam is frequently invited to share her expertise as a keynote speaker and thought leader on anti-racism, identity, belonging, black history and decolonisation in the sector.
Sam has a BA in Classical Studies, a post-graduate Diploma in Education and a first-class MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy from Goldsmiths, University of London.
👀More board member introductions next week, keep your eyes peeled! Head over to our website to read more about Sam and all of our new trustees!
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https://bit.ly/UP-Team
CIMAM's weekly selection of contemporary and modern art museum job opportunities:
📌 Light Art Space is seeking a Senior Curator ( Light Art Space )
📌 Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs, Queens Museum ( Queens Museum )
📌 Wellcome is looking for a Curator, ( Wellcome Collection )
📌 Kunsthall Trondheim is looking for a program curator (paternity leave cover) Kunsthall Trondheim
https://cimam.org/news-archive/job-opportunities-selection-by-cimam1/
We are well overdue talking about this project! Back when we were commissioning for the new wing at Sheffield Children's Hospital NHS and Charity, we needed artwork which provided interest over time for families waiting in our new Outpatient Department, but which was also sympathetic to the striking architecture.
The team at London based studio, Dallas-Pierce-Quintero worked with staff and patients to design these pieces based on parts of the body. Each monochrome piece provides interest from a distance, but on closer inspection contains microscopic details of the bigger image; using imagery provided by the Wellcome Collection and informed by conversations with experts at Sheffield Children's.
Printed onto permanent panels, we hope these classic pieces will provide conversation points for years to come.
📸 Andy Brown
The history of alcohol is intertwined with culture and science. How does culture shape our drinking and science frame our response? In Wellcome Collection.
http://ow.ly/BmxC50Hn3w3
January programs have been announced!
Join us online for Lunch & Learn: The First Internet Message with Professor Leonard Kleinrock about the day the internet came into existence at UCLA.
Learn about Redirecting Perspectives on Colonial Archives and Collections in an online program with Wellcome Collection that will address the complexities of tracing object provenance and highlight the importance of collaboration in research.
Due to the current COVID-19 surge, the Fowler has postponed in-person events for January, including Opening Programs and Global Cuisine: Peru, “From Scratch.”
RSVP:
https://fowler.ucla.edu/programs/
To kick off the year, I am very happy to share these images I created to accompany the writing of James Morland for an Wellcome Collection story.
James Morland writes about his experience of being diagnosed with a liver condition during the pandemic, when in person appointments were not possible and he had to rely on words, poetry and their connection to historical writing to convey the physical. All much more interesting than my brief description, so please do head over to the Wellcome Collection site to give it a read.
https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/YbsTPhEAACIAeySq
‘After the ball was over, Susie took out her glass eye’, sung by Emma Vickers (1894–1977) from Burscough, Lancashire. This is a parody of the song ‘After the Ball’ by Charles K. Harris (1891), which was one of the most successful songs of its day.
It is an example of how popular songs and their parodies can become a part of folk singers’ repertoires.
🎙️‘After the ball was over, Susie took out her glass eye’, recorded by Fred Hamer (1969), C433/59 S1 C3
📸A selection of 50 glass eyes, possibly made by E. Muller of Liverpool, Wellcome Collection
📢Applications for the Public Research Residency (part of Choreodrome Research Residencies) now open.
If you're an artist interested in researching choreographic ideas in a public setting, this could be for you!
Apply for the opportunity to get:
✔️£2100 artist commission
✔️research time in Wellcome Collection Reading Room
✔️Producing support
✔️Support with personal accessibility costs, if required
In partnership with Wellcome Collection
More 👉
https://theplace.ws/3sePgCP
Pleased to have met her, rest well April.
Rachel Collins do you remember when she came to the Identity launch Wellcome Collection ? Great memory to have.