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Wellcome Collection
@ExploreWellcome
Free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
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    Sep 19, 2024
    What work do we value, and why? And what traces does work leave on the body? Hard Graft is our major new free exhibition exploring work, health and rights. Open now at Wellcome Collection, until April 2025. Find out more at wellcome.info/hard-graft
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    Sep 16, 2019
    VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA VAGINA. There. We said it. And no one died! Because vaginas are nothing to be ashamed of. So if you have one, treat it to a smear test today. #EndSmearFear
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    Jul 10, 2024
    On this day in 2013, an artist called Audrey Amiss died alone in her south London flat, aged 79. She documented the last day of her life by pasting some food packaging into a scrapbook, and recording the things she noticed in her final hours.
    Alt text: This photograph shows one half of the last double-page spread from Audrey Amiss' last scrapbook. It shows a Cornetto wrapper and a cut-out from a box of Sainsbury's fruit pudding, stuck into the scrapbook with some annotations in Audrey's handwriting.
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    Jan 11, 2017
    Wow. Historic FAKE NEWS leak: 'orange-faced devil grabs people with small hands, urinates'. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT! Shame. #fakenews
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    May 31, 2017
    What's #Covfefe? Our collection suggests it's a demon summoned by writing its name over & over again. Its powers are unclear. Bear with! 😬
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    Jan 24, 2020
    Get you a museum that can do it all. #dollypartonchallenge
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    Wellcome Collection
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    Feb 17, 2019
    The Romans were fascinated with the phallus. Literally. Considered a charm that could ward off evil, it was related to the deity Fascinus whose name comes from the Latin 'fascinare' which means 'enchantment, spell, witchcraft' and from where we get the word 'fascinate'.
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    Wellcome Collection
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    Oct 31, 2019
    MRI of a Pumpkin. Happy Halloween! 🎃
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    Wellcome Collection
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    Nov 25, 2022
    What’s the point of museums? Truthfully, we’re asking ourselves the same question. 🧵
    A photo of Henry Wellcome dressed in Indigenous people’s clothing is displayed in the Medicine Man gallery.
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    Wellcome Collection
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    Jan 16, 2019
    #ThingsThatAreBadForYourHealth introducing the stimulating vapours of tobacco through the rectum to 'resuscitate' the drowned. The 18th century was an interesting time to be alive.
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    Sep 16, 2019
    Sex education and sexual enlightenment is good for everyone. But what happens when that discussion is censored on social media, where the word vagina is an ‘offensive’ term? @WhoresofYore looks at the battleground of sexual censorship on the internet. [THREAD] #SexualHealthWeek
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    Apr 29, 2019
    Death, in the form of a skeleton, dances in succession with people representing different social ranks - from Pope to peasant - and takes away each in turn, demonstrating that no one, however exalted in life, can escape death. #InternationalDanceDay
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    Wellcome Collection
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    Dec 11, 2020
    For anyone who needs to hear it: You're doing great!
    © Worry Lines for Wellcome Collection
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    Wellcome Collection
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    Jul 8, 2022
    It's Friday. Here's an elephant shrew ❤️
    Etching of an elephant shrew. The shrew has a long nose, pointed ears, a long tail and stands on four legs.