Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road, NW1
020.7611.2222
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Image from Skeletons, Courtesy Wellcome Collection
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23 July 2008 – 28 Sep 2008
Tuesdays–Wednesdays (10am–6pm)
Thursdays (10am–10pm)
Fridays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
Sundays (11am–6pm)
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Tube: Euston Square, Warren Street
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The Wellcome Collection present Skeletons, a gruesome yet fascinating look at London history. Drawing from the Museum of London's collection of over 17,000 skeletons, the exhibition explores the narratives behind a select few, and uncovers the multitude of burial grounds that lie concealed beneath our streets. From the Cross Bones cemetery excavated in Southwark to the East Smithfield Black Plague pits and the Augustinian monastery graveyard (below a carpark in Merton), the show uses social geography to illustrate how a population lived and, ultimately, died.
