About us

The Conference Centre is a private area within Wellcome Collection, a major new £30 million public venue developed by the Wellcome Trust.

To find out more about Wellcome Collection and the Wellcome Trust, see the information below.

Wellcome Collection

Part gallery, part museum, an extraordinary library, café, conference centre and more, Wellcome Collection takes a thoughtful and experimental look at medicine, life and art, rooting science in the broad context of health and wellbeing.

Where else could you find an ancient mummy, Napoleon's toothbrush, Darwin's walking stick, a DNA sequencing robot and a Marc Quinn sculpture under one roof?

Over 1500 exhibits spanning six centuries, plus extensive collections in the library, portray the development in our understanding of wellbeing and human identity. From the macabre to the bizarre to the beautiful, Wellcome Collection allows visitors to see objects as disparate as the guillotine blade used to execute Jean-Baptiste Carrier (an extreme Jacobin who reportedly committed atrocities during the French Revolution) and a giant jelly baby.

Wellcome Trust

The Wellcome Trust is an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health.

Established in 1936 and with an endowment of over £13 billion, it is the UK's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research.

As a privately endowed charity, the Trust is independent from governments, from industry and from donors.

Our mission is to foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health. This reflects the wishes of our founder, Sir Henry Wellcome, as laid out in his will and now enshrined in our governing document (our constitution).

Our broadly defined mission allows us to respond flexibly to medical needs and scientific opportunities. As well as tackling immediate priorities, our independence and long-term perspective enable us to support research that will benefit future generations.

This rounded view extends to our work on the impact of biomedical research. We seek to improve understanding of the ways science and medicine have developed, and how research affects people and society today.

The Wellcome Trust website features a wealth of information about Sir Henry Wellcome and his vision . Further information about the Trust, our organisation and what we do is also available.