Developers - Wellcome Collection

Get started with our collections

Explore diverse perspectives on health, life and what it means to be human

Catalogue

Create apps that search our museum and library collections, using the same API that we do. All of our collections are included, with major enhancements to our data about archives coming soon.

IIIF

Access our digital images using standard International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) APIs. We currently support the Image API, with the Presentation API coming later this year.

Datasets

Documentation and links for our downloadable datasets, including a full daily snapshot of the Catalogue API and around 5800 Medical Officer of Health (MOH) reports from the Greater London area.

Ontologies

We have a clear, consistent and unified data model that describes our collections, exhibitions and editorial content as a rich graph of linked data. This model is documented as a set of OWL ontologies.

Cardigan

Our UX design system for wellcomecollection.org, Cardigan is a living repository of our principles and patterns. Learn more about the visual architecture and resuable components we use to build the website.

Follow along

We work completely in the open, releasing all code on GitHub under an MIT license. Our plans are on there too, if you’d like a peek at what’s coming next.

Experience

View the GitHub repository for wellcomecollection.org

Platform

View the GitHub repository for our core platform

Stacks

Made something?

We’d love to hear about what you build and discover with our collections. Tweet us @ExploreWellcome or email us at digital@wellcomecollection.org and let us know!