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Florence Nightingale Museum

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7 Days/Week
Open Public Holidays

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The museum is dedicated to Florence Nightingale, known as the 'Lady with a Lamp' during the Crimean War. She was a reformer of army health, a medical statistician, a hospital planner, and in 1860 she founded the first modern nurse training school at St Thomas' Hospital.

The Florence Nightingale Museum Trust preserves and displays a collection of artefacts associated with Florence Nightingale, the Crimean War and early professional nursing.

The Museum is open daily and the Resource Centre is available by appointment. The Museum's archives, which include Nightingale correspondence and the training papers of the Nightingale School for Nurses are on deposit at the London Metropolitan Archives.

The Florence Nightingale Museum also displays temporary exhibitions. "Wonderful Mrs Seacole", celebrating the bicentenary of the Caribbean nurse and doctress Mary Seacole, has been extended due to popular demand until March 2007.

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The Florence Nightingale Museum
Life size reconstruction of a Crimean ward scene

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Opening Times: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 17.00 (last admission 16.00) Saturday, Sunday & Bank Holiday Mondays 10.00 - 16.30 (last admission 15.30) Closed Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, 24 December - 2 January
Performances/Shows: On the second weekend of every month and during some school holidays, the Florence Nightingale Museum offers special activity trails, prizes and fun, interactive activities for children and their parents. Best of all, activities are FREE with admission! Visit the Museum's website for details.
Restaurant/Dining: Cafe / Coffee Shop
Operating Times: 7 Days/Week, Open Public Holidays
Site Description: Museum
Site Facilities: Shop / Kiosk