Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library in the Euston section of London that showcases the importance and how we think about health and education. The museum’s main goal is to challenge how we all think and feel about health.

Through exhbitions, collections, live shows and other works of media and art, the museum and library allows for people to think deeply about the partnerships between science, medicine, life and art.

The Welcome Museum was founded by Sir Henry Wellcome’s will in 1936. It is also a global charitable foundation that strives to improve health for everyone. The Wellcome Collection supports scientists, students and researchers to take on big issues, be creative and think in different ways.

The braces ans grillz display stood out to me because it showed how dentist were in every point in time in history and eventually led up to braces and grillz as a fashion statement. Grillz became popular in the late 1990’s early 2000’s as a fashion statement and has grown into a cultural icon. Grillz can be customized from any jewelry for more unique looks.

This story of Ad van den Elzen was interesting to me because when he was 21 years old, he was shot with a bullet and had been left with very serious injuries. His facial features had changed and needed facial reconstruction surgery to fix his accident. His son, Arthur, wrote about his fathers experiences going through the surgery and credits his father, step mother and the skills of the surgeons for his life changing physical and mental recovery.

Sources: https://wellcomecollection.org/pages/Wuw2MSIAACtd3Stq