Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome

British Museum

2003

This exhibition, produced by Wellcome Trust and held at the British Museum, explored Henry Wellcome’s collection of medical artefacts and art through a series of broad, cross-cultural, transhistorical thematic displays including birth, death, healing and understanding the body.

The exhibition was featured in:

The Guardian

The Observer

The Telegraph

Nature

 

Exhibition of large glass vitrines with rows of objects inside. In one vitrine the objects are glass bottles and jars; in the other, wooden masks.

Installation view. Image courtesy of Wellcome Collection

A close up shot of a glass vitrine in an exhibition. The objects are glass jars with various decorative labels that have botanical designs.

Installation view. Image courtesy of Wellcome Collection