My Wellcome Collection YouTube vlog is now live!
Link:-
The
Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library in Euston, London,
exploring health and the human experience. Aside from their fixed
exhibition, entitled Being Human- where you can sniff a sculpture
that's supposed to smell like human breast milk, and play with a
pandemic jukebox- they also have temporary galleries. One of these
contains a banging drum nose sculpture and blow-up arms that are
references to deafness and the need to communicate, and the other
contains a birth scroll dating from 1500 AD. The latter exhibition
has quite a harrowing feel about it; as it's about prayers and
cultural, spiritual rituals that were- and to some extent still are-
put in place to protect the mother and baby during childbirth.
Come and take a walk in my shoes and I'll show you these, plus a truly fantastic reading room, with comfy, slob-out cushions. The also have a red fake fur neural tube dress, and a ballgown made of 6,000 contraceptive pills. This museum is certainly not boring!
I have also blogged about this collection before (it contains photos of some interesting medical instruments, which are no longer in the museum, so you'll enjoy it), and here's the link:-
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The Miss Elaineous
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