Best Exhibitions Options in 2026 — What the Evidence Shows

Exhibitions — Evidence-Based Research Index

The CentreForMedicalHumanities.org Research Team maintains this curated index of 93 exhibitions evaluations. Each entry applies our evidence-grading framework, distinguishing between strong clinical evidence, preliminary research, traditional use claims, and insufficient data.

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Research Index — Exhibitions

Review	Date
Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival Film Awards	2025-03-20
Cabinet of Curiosities: How Disability Was Kept in a Box (Performance, Leeds, 5th June 2014)	2025-03-20
“Drawn Together” World Mental Health Day Art Exhibition (Looking Well Studies, Bentham; October 2013)	2025-03-19
Announcing the UK launch of ‘In the Real’, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, 14 July 2015, 5-8pm	2025-03-17
PAINTING PORTRAITS: challenges of being looked at, and of looking at disfigurement (Talk, Durham DLI, July 3 2014 6pm)	2025-03-17
Undissolved (Performance, London, 17-18 July 2014)	2025-03-16
“Lab Notes”: Illuminating biology & robotics through contemporary classical music (Launch, Edinburgh, 14 May 2013)	2025-03-15
Art in the Asylum: Preservation & Transformations	2025-03-13
‘About Face’ Exhibition	2025-03-13
Visualising Illness (Free public lecture, Birkbeck University, 14 November 2014)	2025-03-12
Rest & its discontents (Exhibition, The Mile End Art Pavilion, London, 30 Sept – 30 Oct 2016)	2025-03-12
I am not the cancer: Art Installation & Launch of Impact Report (London, 24 June 2014)	2025-03-10
Passages from Empire (Staged reading of an original play, King’s College London, 13 Dec 2013))	2025-03-07
Extraordinary Renditions: the Cultural Negotiation of Science (BALTIC event, Sept 7 – 12 2013, Gateshead)	2025-03-07
Illness begins with “I” – Jac Saorsa (Exhibition, The Broadway Drawing School Gallery, Cardiff, until 2 Nov 2014)	2025-03-07
From Wales to Galveston: An introduction to a series of posts from a visiting scholar and artist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Institute of Medical Humanities	2025-03-07
Devising Psychosis: Talks, Performances, Visual Arts and Installation (Newcastle, 29 April 2012)	2025-03-07
Art in the Asylum: Creativity & the Evolution of Psychiatry (Exhibition, Nottingham, 7 September – 3 November 2013)	2025-03-06
Living with Death: Perspectives on End-of-Life Care (Screening & discussion, Edinburgh University, 12 October 2012)	2025-03-05
The Art Of Risk (Conference, University of Leeds & Opera North, Thursday 26 June 2014)	2025-03-03
‘Nursing the nation’ by Molly Case	2025-03-02
‘The waiting room’ (Art Exhibition, Newcastle Arts Centre, 7 September – 13 October 2012)	2025-02-25
“Rest and its discontents” (Hubbub Exhibition and Events Series, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, 30 Sept-30 Oct 2016)	2025-02-24
Life of Breath at the Edinburgh Festival (Events, Edinburgh, 13-25 August 2017)	2025-02-24
Luke Fowler’s “All Divided Selves” (Film, showing at Tate Britain, London, until 6 January 2013)	2025-02-24
“Polevault”: Audiowalk on Mental Illness & Infanticide linked to canals	2025-02-24
The Heart of the Matter (Exhibition, Newcastle, 24 March – 06 May 2018)	2025-02-23
Risk, Childbirth and Women’s Choices in the Museum	2025-02-23
EC Davies, “A Stitch in Time” (Art exhibition, Newcastle, 13 April-18 May 2013)	2025-02-22
Whose stories? Sharing the authorship of medical histories of the First World War (Public event, Exeter, 26 April 2018)	2025-02-20
All Divided Selves – Luke Fowler’s Turner-Prize Nominated R D Laing Documentary (Screening with Q&A, Glasgow, November 21)	2025-02-18
All Divided Selves – Luke Fowler’s R D Laing Documentary Screening in Newcastle	2025-02-18
“Alice in Bed” by Susan Sontag (Play, Newcastle, 27 Feb – 3 March 2013)	2025-02-17
“Devouring Brains with Neuroscientists”: Liat Clark in WiredUK on Guerrilla Science’s “Brain Banquet” (London, 13–15 March 2014)	2025-02-17
Artists’ Books and the Medical Humanities (Symposium, exhibition and workshop, Canterbury, April 2016)	2025-02-17
Experiences of Ageing: Lucy Lyons’ Exhibition at the Medical Museion, Copenhagen	2025-02-16
Abnormal: Towards a Scientific Model of Disability	2025-02-16
Brain Box (Exhibition, Hartlepool, April 13-June 8, 2013)	2025-02-15
Damaging The Body: Medical and Social Concepts of Harm (Film Launch, 6 December 2012, London)	2025-02-14
Cardiff Launch of Drawing Out Obstetric Fistula project	2025-02-14
‘This is your hospital’: Film Screening, Museum of Croydon, 1 May, 5-6 pm	2025-02-14
Christine Borland and Brody Condon: Daughters of Decayed Tradesmen (Artist Commission, 1 August – 1 September 2013)	2025-02-12
Death and Dissection: Art Exhibition and Workshop (studio 41, Glasgow, May 25-26 2012)	2025-02-10
The Pathology of BODY WORLDS Vital	2025-02-07
Group Therapy: Mental distress in a digital age	2025-02-07
House for a Gordian Knot: New sculpture celebrates opening of Nottingham’s Institute of Mental Health	2025-02-06
Hearing Voices: Suffering, Inspiration, and the Everyday (Exhibition, Durham, 5 November 2016 – 26 February 2017)	2025-02-06
A Sense of Anatomy (Dance Theatre, November 29-30 2013, Gulbenkian Centre, University of Hull)	2025-02-05
CASEBOOKS (Exhibition, University of Westminster, 17 March – 23 April 2017)	2025-02-03
‘We’re All Mad Here’ (Film Screening and Q&A with the filmmaker, 17 December 2014, Durham University)	2025-02-02
Lessons in Anatomy: Dissecting medicine and health through visual and literary arts collaboration	2025-02-02
Phantom Limb (Exhibition, Liverpool, 9 July – 3 December 2016)	2025-02-02
Feel It Festival: Exploring Pain & Breath Through Performance (Public Engagement, University of Bristol, 17-20 November 2016)	2025-02-01
Portraits of Violence: Public Lecture by Suzannah Biernoff (Durham Light Infantry Museum Art Gallery, 6-7:30 pm, 18 Sept 2014)	2025-02-01
The Practical Art of Medicine: dissection, diagnosis and disease in the Early Modern Period (Exhibition and Events, Durham University, 2013)	2025-02-01
Brains: The Mind as Matter – reviewed by Sophie Fitzsimmons	2025-02-01
“Brain Banquet”: Guerilla Science (London, 13–15 March 2014)	2025-01-31
After Rymsdyk: drawing in Glasgow University Anatomy Museum by Jac Saorsa, Research Fellow at Glasgow University Medical Humanities Research Centre	2025-01-31
The Voice – Wellcome Collection – 1st March 2013, 19.00-23.00	2025-01-31
A Malady of Migration: A Theatrical Examination of Diaspora, Displacement & Mental Disorders in the 19th C (Theatre, 26-28 June 2014, Coventry)	2025-01-30
‘Squirrels’ presented by the Operating Theatre (Arts Centre Washington, 4 February 2016)	2025-01-30
Mr A Moves in Mysterious Ways: Selected Artists from the Adamson Collection (Art Exhibition, London, 15 May-25 July 2017)	2025-01-28
Self-portrait without Breasts (Poetry reading, King’s College London, 24 Feb 2015)	2025-01-27
“Le Traumatisme”: Performance at Vane Gallery (26 July 2014, Newcastle)	2025-01-24
Susan Aldworth’s Transience: Fiona Johnstone reviews the magic of etchings taken from brain tissue	2025-01-24
Three October Arts in Health Events	2025-01-23
Reassembling the Self: Susan Aldworth (Art exhibition, Newcastle, Sept–Nov 2012)	2025-01-22
Bodies in Motion (Royal Anthropological Institute events, April 2012)	2025-01-22
MASK MIRROR MEMBRANE – A Deborah Padfield Exhibition, London 6-16th July 2011	2025-01-22
Pat Barker Reads from her new novel ‘Toby’s Room’ (Durham Light Infantry Museum, May 10 2012)	2025-01-22
“Who Would Have Them”? A Play about Parkinson’s (Newcastle, 19 -20 April 2012)	2025-01-21
Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War (Exhibition, University of Liverpool’s School of Arts, 20th June 2015)	2025-01-21
FLUX: Responding to Head and Neck Cancer (Exhibition, Chicago, 18 May-19 August 2018)	2025-01-20
Cyborg-Ethics Film Festival (Edinburgh, 22 – 24 Nov 2013)	2025-01-18
Blind Creations: International Conference & Micro Arts Festival (Royal Holloway, 28-30 June 2015)	2025-01-17
Creative Writing from the Archive: R.D. Laing and Mental Health	2025-01-17
Drawing Women’s Cancer: Speaking The Unspeakable	2025-01-15
The Foetus Goes Public – Images of the Unborn from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century – Exhibition at Durham University’s Queen’s Campus	2025-01-14
Pat Barker at ‘About Face’, Durham Art Gallery	2025-01-14
PASSAGE: a contemporary music album and poetry collection on life after birth	2025-01-13
The Camera as Mirror: Movie-Making in Palliative Care (Film Screening & Discussion, Edinburgh, 19 March 2013)	2025-01-13
“The Trade in Lunacy”: A Theatrical Examination of 18th Century Private Asylums (Coventry, 27-29 June 2013)	2025-01-13
Bedlam: the asylum and beyond (Exhibition, Wellcome Collection London, 15 September 2016 – 15 January 2017)	2025-01-12
Dancing With The Orange Dog (Multi-media Performance, ARC Stockton, 12 & 13 Feb 2013)	2025-01-11
Performing Medicine – The Anatomy Season – 28 Oct to 10 Dec 2011	2025-01-11
Events on Mental Health, Stigma and Theatre with Chris Lee and Catherine Hartley (Edinburgh, 26 March 2014)	2025-01-11
Blood Makes Noise – Evaluation available of unique film exploring chronic kidney failure.	2025-01-10
Voices On Identity, Childhood, Ethics and Stimulants: Children join the debate (VOICES study final report & animated film)	2025-01-09
Training Program – 20 places, Research in Translation: Public Engagement through Exhibition Displays – Deadline Friday 18 July 2014	2025-01-07
War, Art and Surgery (Hunterian Museum Exhibition & Events, 2013-14)	2025-01-05
Wasted: Gina Czarnecki art exhibition on ‘discarded’ body parts (Coventry 30 March–9 June 2013)	2025-01-04
Festival of Medical History and the Arts (The New York Academy of Medicine, Saturday October 5 2013)	2025-01-02
“Illness begins with ‘I'” – New Exhibition by Jac Saorsa (Cardiff, October 2014)	2025-01-01

This research index is maintained by the CentreForMedicalHumanities.org Research Team. All evaluations represent independent analysis and do not constitute medical recommendations. Index updated July 2026.