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Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries

Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries is suite of five vast and visually stunning new galleries. With over 3,000 objects in what is the world’s largest collection of medical galleries, there are plenty of stories for your guests to explore on how our lives have been transformed by medical research and practice.

Designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, the five galleries cover 3000m², an area equivalent to 1,500 hospital beds. The galleries overlook our Making the Modern World gallery and feature works by artists such as Marc Quinn and Eleanor Crook.

Guests can mingle among scientifically significant objects such as an original a full-sized pharmacy from 1911, a rare Iron lung, and the first MRI scanner.

Accommodating up to 400 guests, you can now hire the Medicine Galleries for an evening drinks reception and 60 guests for a seated dinner.