A free museum and library exploring health and human experience

  • Display

Zines Forever! DIY Publishing and Disability Justice

Discover how self-published zines have been used to share experiences of disability and disabled identity. You’ll be able to see, touch, listen to and create zines in this gallery display based on our collection.

This week

  • Exhibition

Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights

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Final week
  • Exhibition

1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader

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Now on
  • Event

Zine Club Forever!

Online | In our building

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  • Relaxed
  • Gallery tour

Audio Described Tour of Zines Forever! DIY Publishing and Disability Justice

Information Point

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Part of Access Tours and Discussions

  • Audio described
  • Late
  • 18+

A People's History of Death with Molly Conisbee

In our building

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  • Relaxed
  • Speech-to-text
  • British Sign Language interpreted
  • Permanent exhibition

Being Human

Now on

Our building has step-free access. Exhibitions include audio description, British Sign Language and captions.

All exhibitions and events

In focus

The Joy of Being Disabled

Explore what it means to be joyful, defiant and disabled. Guest edited by Amy Kavanagh, this series of five articles celebrates different bodies and minds, and challenges ableist ideas of what it means to be happy.

Books

We publish thought-provoking books exploring health and human experiences. Our latest titles include ‘Nine Minds, Inner Lives on the Spectrum’, an illuminating, life-affirming book by Daniel Tammet that celebrates the power and beauty of the neurodivergent mind.

The hidden story of plants and slavery

Watch a short video with curator Cindy Sissokho exploring how plants became a source of healing and resistance for enslaved communities. It's inspired by our exhibition, 'Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights', which is open until 27 April 2025.

Latest stories

  • Article

How the slave trade’s medical legacies persist

Micha Frazer-Carroll, uncovers the historical links between enslavement and disability to better understand her family’s complex attitudes towards healthcare.

  • Long read

Letting go of IVF

Fertility treatment is physically and emotionally arduous, with no guarantees. Jessa Fairbrother describes her decision not to have IVF and the complexity of living with that choice.

  • Article

Pregnancy, parenting, and embracing blindness

Amy Kavanagh, who is blind, shares the delight she feels in her young, sighted son, and her growing acceptance of the ways his experiences will differ from hers.

Part of The Joy of Being Disabled
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Disability, desire, and pleasure unlocked

Roxy Murray dives into the raw, intimate truths of sex and pleasure as a disabled person, sharing an unapologetic and explicit journey through her frustrations and desires.

Part of The Joy of Being Disabled
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