At the Wellcome Collection: ‘Expecting’
Christina Faraday, 19 March 2026
Around the year 1500, in Eisenach, Thuringia, a woman gave birth to a mouse. According to rumour, this ‘beautiful and virtuous’ woman had, during her pregnancy, encountered a dormouse on which a neighbour had tied a little bell to scare away other dormice. This unexpected vision imprinted itself on the foetus in her womb. In the days after the birth, news spread through the...
