It’s a rare room where one raking glance can take in a columnar dress in scarlet fake-fur, a 1920s ‘dental station’ and a tot partly sculpted from synthetic milk powder. But such is the new Reading Room at London’s Wellcome Collection, part of biomedical research funding giant the Wellcome Trust’s £17.5 million refit, and now open to the public. Read more
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