Wilkinson Eyre’s £24m Science Museum project opens

Medicine - The Wellcome Galleries ©Ed Reeve for WilkinsonEyre_28

Source: Ed Reeve for Wilkinson Eyre

Medicine galleries double space for 3,000 objects

Wilkinson Eyre has created the largest museum gallery in the world devoted to medicine.

The £24m project on the first floor of the Science Museum in South Kensington almost doubles the permanent display space to 3,000sq m. New lifts improve accessibility to the galleries which were previously sited over the smaller fourth and fifth floors.

Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries takes visitors on a journey through five themes: Medicine & Bodies, Exploring Medicine, Medicine and Communities, Medicine and Treatments and Faith, Hope and Fear.

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