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Postcard Takeover

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  • Free
  • Session
  • Relaxed
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Event in the Wellcome Reading Room, Photo: Kathleen Arundell. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

What you’ll do

Join members of our experience and engagement teams in a postcard extravaganza!

Did you know that you can send special postcards from the postbox in the Reading Room to anywhere in the world for free? We’ve commissioned four artists to design four new postcards, each responding to the question: “What does health mean to you?”

To mark the launch of our new postcards, we're taking over the Reading Room with a range of activities that celebrate and explore stamps and postcards from our collections.

Drop by the Reading Room and you can have a go at:

  • Making a new postcard out of old ones
  • Writing your own poetry on a postcard
  • Joining a postage-stamp treasure hunt
  • Creating your own blackout poem using copies of postcards from our collection.

Next door in the Viewing Room there will be a display of postcards and stamps from our collection to discover and learn more about.

A chill-out space will be available – just ask staff for more details.

Dates

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Just turn up

Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Reading Room on level 2. You can walk up the spiral staircase to the Reading Room door, or take the lift up and then head left from the Library Desk.

Drop in

Just turn up to this event. It's likely to have room for everyone.

Relaxed

This is a relaxed event, which means that if you need to, you are welcome to move around and make noise at any time.

For more information, please visit our Accessibility page. If you have any queries about accessibility, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 0 2 0. 7 6 1 1. 2 2 2 2

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About your facilitators

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Jessica Rayner

(she/her)

Jessica is a visitor experience and engagement facilitator at Wellcome Collection and a freelance producer with a background in history, art and journalism. She is an advocate for inclusive creative practice and exploring multi-sensory engagement within museums and cultural spaces.

Divine Mayala

Divine is a library experience and engagement facilitator at Wellcome Collection. She enjoys crafting events that explore the library collections in an engaging and accessible way.

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Polly Bodetto

(she/her)

Polly is a library experience and engagement facilitator at Wellcome Collection and an art historian who loves the history of trade routes, collage making, and occultism.

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Sauren Blaney

(she/they)

Sauren is a library assistant at Wellcome Collection, freelance curator and lecturer. Their practice often favours live programmes that generate unexpected forms of knowledge. Their main focuses are zines, creative archiving, and how food can enact decoloniality.