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Wellcome Collection
The Wellcome Collection is a museum in London displaying an unusual mixture of medical artefacts and original artworks exploring 'ideas about the connexions between medicine, life and art'.
The Wellcome Trust was founded by Sir Henry Wellcome, who had amassed a large collection of books, paintings and objects on the theme of historical development of medicine worldwide.
The Collection was opened to the public in 2007 and receives around 300,000 visitors per year.
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