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Monday, Tuesday  12.00 to 18.00

Wednesday : closed

Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10.00 to 18.00

price: free

address:

183 Euston Road

London NW1 2BE

tel: +44 (0)207 611 2160

links: http://www.wellcomecollection.org

        http://www.bookshop.blackwell.co.uk


map: http://www.bookshop.blackwell.co.uk

 

The Wellcome Collection bookshop is run by Blackwell and hosted by the Wellcome Trust, a foundation dedicated to Medicine and Art. What’s more, it’s also a good place for salads and soups within seconds from the Bartlett School of Architecture, which I visit a lot.

The foundation proposes a programme of exhibitions and at the time of my visit ‘war and medicine’ was on. But I did not see it. Perhaps too squeamish for it. Instead, I browsed the bookshop and have since added it to my list of places to visit regularly. There’s a Medicine section with books which seem to address a wide audience beyond the initiated, and a section about Art. And in between these two, there’s one I was particularly interested into: Art and Science. Interdisciplinary. And there I was struck by the back cover of one of the books asking: ‘is Science the new Art?’ to which I wold instinctively reply of course not. But it lead me to wonder: ‘what happens to a discipline when it starts to delve into another? Is it at risk of loosing its very essence? or is it more likely to gain from it? ‘

A book, interdisciplinary, will be on my Christmas list from the shop: “Echo Objects, The Cognitive work of images“ by Barbara Maria Stafford whereas the following one won’t, but its title made me smile “Elephants on acid and other experiments” by Alex Boese. Food for thought.

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