Identity - 8 rooms, 9 lives

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Monday, 25 December 1989 - Saturday, 10 April 2010

Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, Kings Cross, NW1 2BE

Exhibitions: , Art, Gallery, Science, History

How Much: Free!
It really is quite amazing how the Wellcome Collection just keeps getting better and better - surely they're going to run out of ideas some time? Well, no time soon it seems.

Identity - as you can probably tell - is an investigation into human identity, both through the sciences and the arts. By focusing on the lives of individuals this is an exhibition that seeks to shun the broad brushstroke in favour of the specificity of the detailed portrait.

The exhibition looks at, among others, Sir Alec Jeffreys, who developed DNA profiling, April Ashley, oneof the first people in the UK to have a sex change, and English diarist and MP Samuel Pepys.

As usual this looks fascinating.

Until 11.04.10
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