Skeletons, Wellcome Exhibition

23 July to 28 September 2008

The recently opened new Wellcome building has a designated space for exhibitions that enables Wellcome to display an enormously varied programme from the vast spectrum of fields that it encompasses. The Centre for Human Bioarchaeology was delighted to be invited to be part of the 2008 exhibition programme.

The exhibition will highlight and communicate to visitors what is underneath their feet in archaeological terms, with particular attention to the vast number of human remains revealed from the constant development of London. Over the past two thousand years the ground upon which the City and Greater London have developed has predominantly acted as one large burial ground for the past inhabitants of London.

The exhibition will focus solely around the skeletal remains excavated from the many different cemeteries spanning the Roman, Medieval and Post Medieval periods. It will enable visitors to observe the transformation of London spatially and temporally but from a more novel skeletal perspective.

The skeletons themselves will convey the impacts and insults of everyday life through the ages’, manifest in the nature and often florid disease processes observable in the actual bones and teeth. The visitors will be able to look directly at past Londoner’s and have a unique sense of that individual and a rare snapshot of the time in which they lived.

The exhibition will be at the:

Wellcome History of Medicine building
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

The exhibition runs from 23 July until 28 September 2008.

Entrance to the exhibition is free of charge.

The opening times are
Monday CLOSED
Tuesday-Sunday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 8pm