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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:

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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:

Our involvement...

The Hall of Statuary to library

Wellcome Library reading room c. 1980s

The reading room: pre-2015 transformation

The Reading Room Now

Layout and Niches

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

Reading Room

The Stairs to Nowhere!

Sign upon entry

Books!

Print Facsimiles

Alchemical Scroll facsimile

Original: Ripley, George (c. 1415-1490). Wellcome Library Reference: MS.693

Children’s Book Collection

New (small) audiences

Examples of public engagement output in the RR

Challenges!

Reading Room Collective

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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@nicolosaurus

Loesja Vigour

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@loesjavigour /

@l.o.e.s.j.a.

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Thank you!