# Wellcome Collection

**We are a software development team for a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we all think and feel about health.**

Digital media and services are vital to our mission, they include:

* A unified search for all our collections, both [on our website](https://wellcomecollection.org/collections) and [as open APIs](https://developers.wellcomecollection.org/docs/api)
* Access to millions of digitised images through [IIIF APIs](https://developers.wellcomecollection.org/images), shared with open and permissive licences
* Long-form narrative content published at <https://wellcomecollection.org/stories>

We work in the open, so that others can learn from our mistakes and successes.

All the services we've built in-house are open source, made available under an MIT licence.

**Further information**

* [Service Overview](https://docs.wellcomecollection.org/index/service-overview)
* [Developer Handbook](https://docs.wellcomecollection.org/index/broken-reference)
* [Technical Documentation](https://github.com/wellcomecollection/docs/blob/main/README.md)

This documentation is for people who want to know how the platform is built or want to build more of it, you might also be looking for:

* [**developers.wellcomecollection.org**](https://developers.wellcomecollection.org/) is the documentation for developers who are **using** our APIs.
* [**stacks.wellcometrust.org**](https://stacks.wellcomecollection.org/) is our Medium blog with standalone articles about our work.
* [**wellcomecollection.org**](https://wellcomecollection.org/) is the public-facing site, including an [images search](https://wellcomecollection.org/works) backed by our APIs.
* [**Notion (Wellcome Collection Digital Product):** ](https://www.notion.so/wellcometrust/Wellcome-Collection-digital-product-6eda38f9f86a4741bdd01e3de851fdf1)product & design documentation, (currently private).

*This page is available in* [*GitHub*](https://github.com/wellcomecollection) *and* [*GitBook*](https://docs.wellcomecollection.org/index)*.*


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