look, touch, read collect, share: the reading room at the wellcome collection
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The Reading Room at
Wellcome Collection ● ●
Nicola Cook, Librarian, Wellcome Library
Loesja Vigour, Librarian, Wellcome Library
LOOK ● TOUCH ● READ ●
COLLECT ● SHARE:
Paintings & Prints
Facsimile
Manuscripts
New Books
What’s in the Reading Room?
Untouchable Objects
Interactive Objects
Consumables
The Reading Room Vision
In its latest incarnation, we have tried to
knit together this split heritage to create
a place that champions both sides of
Wellcome’s collection. It celebrates both
the tradition of exhibition visiting – of
looking, talking and sharing – and that of
the library, of reading, touching,
thinking, writing and creating.
Arnold, K. and Chaplin, S. (2014) ‘Introducing the Reading Room’ in Reading Room Companion:
Consisting of a Rare and Valuable Collection of Diverse Curiosities Acquired by and for Henry Wellcome
with a Great Variety of Books. London : Wellcome Collection, pp. viii-ix.
- Ken Arnold & Simon Chaplin
Alchemical Scroll facsimile
Original: Ripley, George (c. 1415-1490). Wellcome Library Reference: MS.693
Conserving Facsimiles
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Scott repairing a facsimile of A Voyage Round the World: Performed in the years 1785, 1787, and 1788, June 2016.
Nicola Cook
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Loesja Vigour
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