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This exhibition looks at the role of mind-altering drugs in history and culture, from ancient Egyptian poppy tinctures to Victorian cocaine eye drops, Native American peyote rites to the salons of the French Romantics. The show explores how drugs were first discovered and how they have been fetishised and demonised over the centuries.
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Founder Sir Henry Wellcome, a pioneering 19th-century pharmacist and entrepreneur, amassed a vast and idiosyncratic collection of implements and...
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Galleries: 10am-6pm Tue-Sat, until 10pm Thur, 11am-6pm Sun (closed Mon except bank hols). Library: 10am-6pm Mon-Sat, 10am-8pm Thur, 10am-4pm Sat
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Frustrating! Themes such as the oddly close relationship between recreational drugs and creating music and other artworks and the political and social results of the opium trade are only touched on. Ultimately feels rather careful. The Venn diagram shoved in at the end above the "declare your drug experiences" PC is cool though.
as a drug user (in the past) i found this on the dull side. good from a scientific standpoint but it lacked little in the way of personal experience - not much from the point of view of the user. but i guess the wellcome trust would be loathe to appear to condone drug usage and heaven forbid we might discover that people took drugs because they were pleasurable...
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