News – Medicine and the arts
A new £30m venue looking at the links between medicine and the arts is being created in central London by the Wellcome Trust. The six-storey venue will house some 1,500 exhibits, ranging from Napoleons toothbrush to recent work by Mark Quinn and Christine Borland, across three galleries. The Wellcome Collection will use contemporary and experimental techniques to encourage visitors to consider issues of science, health and human identity through the ages.
The building will also house the Wellcome Library and a café and members club. Three public discussions are being held next month as a preview to the regular events that will take place when the building opens. The first of these, entitled What Makes Us Happy?, will look at the neurological processes involved in happiness as examined by artists such as Darren Hopes (pictured).
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