Wellcome Collection turns one

23 June 2008

It is a year since the Wellcome Trust’s new venue, Wellcome Collection, fully opened to the public.

To celebrate the occasion, Wellcome Collection hosted a series of events on Saturday 21 June.

Highlights included: taster tours, a chance to see the 'From Atoms to Patterns' exhibition, origami workshops, Gandini Juggling, music from DiscQuartet, film highlights from our first year, raffle tickets and an hourly draw.

We are also thrilled to announce that Wellcome Collection has attracted over 300 000 visits since launching, just in time for the birthday celebrations.

View highlights from Wellcome Collection’s first year below.

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Wellcome Collection was one of only four venues recently short-listed for this year's prestigious Art Fund Prize, a national award given to a public venue whose project demonstrates the most originality, imagination and excellence.

Wellcome Collection's exhibitions and events programme will continue to intrigue and entertain over the coming months. From 23 July, 26 skeletons from the Museum of London's vast collection of 17 000 will go on display in ‘Skeletons: London’s buried bones’, an exhibition that uncovers 2000 years of the city's history. ‘From Atoms to Patterns’ will continue until 10 August. For more details see the Wellcome Collection website.