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WELLCOME
COLLECTION SECURES VON HAGENS BODY SLICE
Only example of controversial anatomist's
work to be on permanent display in the UK
25 June 2007: Wellcome Collection will
be the first institution in the UK to display
an example of Gunther Von Hagens's pioneering
plastination procedure on a permanent basis.
The late arrival to Wellcome Collection is
a plastinated slice of a human body which
has been frontally dissected. It will join
a number of modern artworks relating to health
and wellbeing housed in the Collection's permanent
gallery, Medicine Now.
The plastination process, a method of preserving
the body to enable close study of anatomy,
was invented by Von Hagens in 1977.
Body Worlds, one of the world's most popular
yet most controversial exhibitions of over
200 plastinated bodies and organs by Von Hagens,
has been travelling the world since 1995 and
has attracted 20 million visitors worldwide.
850,000 visitors saw the exhibition in London
between March 2002 and February 2003.
Wellcome Collection, opened on June 21, is
a world first. It combines three contemporary
galleries together with the world-famous Wellcome
Library, public events forum, café,
bookshop, conference centre and members' club,
to provide visitors with radical insight into
the human condition.
Wellcome Collection builds on the vision,
legacy and personal collection of Wellcome
Trust founder Sir Henry Wellcome, and is part
of the Trust's mission to foster understanding
and promote research to improve human and
animal health. Admission is free.
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Tours: From July 14 there will be a
30 minute exhibition tour every Saturday at
14.30. Full details about these and numerous
other tours are available from http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/index.asp
Public information contact details:
Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE
T +44 (0)20 7611 2222
E info@wellcomecollection.org
www.wellcomecollection.org
Press information
and images
Wellcome Collection: Kallaway Media
Centre and press images: www.kallaway.co.uk/wellcome.htm
Press contacts
William Kallaway
T +44 (0)20 7221 7883
E william@kallaway.co.uk
Wellcome Trust
Media centre: www.wellcome.ac.uk/aboutus/mediaoffice/
Press contacts
Katrina Nevin-Ridley
T +44 (0)20 7611 8540/ 07973 481485
E k.nevin-ridley@wellcome.ac.uk
About the Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is the largest charity
in the UK and the second largest medical
research charity in the world. It funds
innovative biomedical research, in the UK
and internationally, spending around £500
million each year to support the brightest
scientists with the best ideas. The Wellcome
Trust supports public debate about biomedical
research and its impact on health and wellbeing.
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