If you ever have the opportunity to make a simple round trip to London and you have at least two hours between two trains, then it should absolutely go see Welcome Collection, located just opposite St Pancras International Station in London.
Sir Henry Wellcome was a wealthy scientist and explorer who brought back thousands of miscellaneous objects of his many travels around the world. The foundation that bears his name exhibits some of these objects.
The man behind Wellcome Collection
Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936): Pharmacist, entrepreneur, philanthropist and collector
Henry Wellcome had an early interest in medicine and marketing. The first product he advertised was 'invisible ink' (just lemon juice in fact). In 1880, he joined his college friend Silas Burroughs in setting up a pharmaceutical company, Burroughs Wellcome & Co. They were one of the first to introduce medicine in tablet form under the 1884 trademark 'Tabloid'; previously medicines had been sold as powders or liquids.
When Burroughs died in 1895, the company flourished under Sir Henry's leadership. He went on to establish world-class medical research laboratories and amassed the world's most impressive collections relating to medicine and health through the ages.
Wellcome Collection is now housed in the original Wellcome Building (built to Sir Henry's specifications in 1932), which is next door to the headquarters of the Wellcome Trust, his philanthropic legacy. His vision was to create a space to house his collections, where professionals could come to learn more about the development of medicine and medical science.
L'embout d'une canne en ivoire. Les yeux sont sans doute des rubis
Not bad for a planisphere
Very beautiful amulets. In true is sublime
choice
Tattoo on skin "French"
Collection is frankly a visit even if a fraction of the collected objects are exposed.
the basement (which is actually the ground floor but it is funny), there was a temporary exhibition on drugs. Pretty damn good but I grilled taking pictures, and we do not mess with the police museum.
anyway I could take this picture installation of a fairly well known:
These executives represent cobwebs exposed to various substances: coffee / Benzedrine / Hashish.
These are the results of an experiment conducted by NASA on drugs and their effects on the nervous system.
For more info see this TPE (sic) Jeremiah Sangare.
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