Visiting and sketching in Wellcome Collection
Among museums in London, Wellcome Collection provides unique insights for visitors. It’s science. It’s public health. It’s understanding about us. It’s society. It’s history. It’s human centred. It’s also art. Uniqueness comes from these integration.
I have been to Wellcome Collection for several times. Every time I did visit those temporary special exhibitions while I captured the venue with my sketch buddies. When I looked back the photos taken here, I realised I have some relationships with this museum.
We visited last Saturday because British Museum we planned to was fundamentally closed, and Grant Museum of Zoology, our backup plan, was over capacity and too small to do sketching. After sketching the reading room and the permanent exhibition, I captured my sketch buddies here when we gathered in the cafe after drawing individually.
After visiting their current exhibition Hard Graft, I understand that their museum was designed to be consistent with their above principles (art X human centred X health): The reading room is so comfortable; the cafe allows people to socialise; toilets are unisex and clean; arts are everywhere even outside the exhibit areas (check the yellow sign)…
Recent exhibition: Hard Graft
Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights lets us raise awareness of the work, which has long become an unnecessary package with the sacrifice of both mental and physical health. Even though the exhibition only covers plantation, home and street. This job nature still exists in other kinds of work too, and one of the examples I can think of is fast food restaurant, where I suffered from physical injuries due to accident, and mental health as the fast pace could make me feel miserable.
Wellcome Collection
Website: https://wellcomecollection.org
Address: 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
Opening hours:
Usually 10:00–18:00 with Thursday extending to 20:00; Galleries and Reading Room closed on Monday and Library closed on Sunday; Cafe and shop opened every day
Stations nearby:
Tube: Warren Street, Euston Square, King’s Cross St Pancras
Rail: Euston, King’s Cross and St Pancras International
