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# Terminology: All the parts of Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Collection is the venue that houses the library, exhibition spaces, etc. at 183 Euston Road, London. We say ‘Wellcome Collection’, not ‘the Wellcome Collection’ (except in a phrase like ‘the Wellcome Collection events programme’). Don’t shorten it to ‘Collection’, ‘the Collection’, or WC. We typically use first person in writing, so you’re more likely to use ‘we’ or ‘us’. 

 

## Our collections

 

Here are some different ways you might use the word ‘collection’.

**A collection** – used as a catch-all phrase for a collection of stuff.

**An archive/archival collection** – usually unpublished materials from individuals, organisations, charities, and so on, which help draw a picture of the lifetime activities of that person or group. It often contains things like correspondence, notebooks, photo albums, diaries. The way they’re described and structured is hierarchical, like a folder filing system.

**Special collections** – refers broadly to all the unique materials we hold, primarily artworks, manuscripts, archives, film and video, and rare books printed before 1850. Often we may be the only library in the world to hold a copy, or our copy is ‘special’ because of its binding or provenance.

**Digital collections** – used throughout the Wellcome environment to denote physical things that have been digitised (rather than born digital), and may have an overarching theme or organising principle, such as Medieval Manuscripts, Medical Officer of Health Reports, Arabic Manuscripts, Mental Health Archives.

 

## The building

 

This is how we refer to different areas in the building.

**Levels (not floors):**

* levels –2, –1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (lower-case l)

**Permanent galleries:**

* Being Human

**The building also contains:**

* Gallery 1
* Gallery 2
* Gallery 3
* Wellcome Café
* the Information Point (reception on level 0)
* the Forum
* the Studio
* The Hub (note cap T)
* Venue hire (see below)
* the Reading Room
* the library
* Toilets (not gender-neutral nor toilets for everyone, just toilets)
* a Changing Places toilet

**Venue hire** (formerly Wellcome Collection Conference Centre) includes:

* Henry Wellcome Auditorium
* Dale Room
* Franks Room
* Steel Room
* Burroughs Room
* Williams Lounge

**The library**

This used to be the Wellcome Library, but we now just call it ‘the library’ or ‘our library’, with no capital L.

**Rooms/areas of the library (not exhaustive):**

* Group study room
* Assistive study room
* Reading Room
* Viewing Room
* Rare Materials Room