Featuring three thousand objects and covering an area equivalent to 1,500 hospital beds, Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries magnificent new home for the most significant medical collections in the world.

Showcasing extraordinary medical artefacts from the collections of Henry Wellcome and the Science Museum Group, including the world’s first MRI Scanner, Fleming’s Penicillin mound, a professional pianist’s prosthetic arm and even robotic surgery equipment, the galleries explore our relationship with medicine and health through more than 500 years of history.

Throughout the galleries you’ll find specially commissioned artworks, including ‘Self-Conscious Gene’, by Marc Quinn, a bronze sculpture by Eleanor Crook, a series of portraits by award-winning photographer Sian Davey and an installation by Studio Roso, as well as interactive displays, films and audio recordings.

As a reminder of our huge national effort to save live and protect the NHS, the empty vials of the Pfizer/Biotech and Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines used for the first mass vaccinations worldwide, COVID-19 testing kits and signage from the Governments’ daily briefing from part of a new COVID-19 display in the gallery.