What would you do if your wife left you for a famous writer? If you're Henry Wellcome, you'd start to collect things. At the time of his death in 1936, his holdings outnumbered those of the Louvre, according to this Bloomberg story. The Wellcome Trust just opened a new museum to showcase Wellcome's collection, which includes Charles Darwin's walking stick, Napoleon's toothbrush, and more. One wing of the museum focuses on modern times and includes 120 volumes that are the hard copy printout of the human genome.
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