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Florence Nightingale Museum
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#169 of 2,704 things to do in London
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10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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The Florence Nightingale Museum celebrates the life and work of one of the best known figures in nursing history and one of Britain's great Victorians who truly changed the world. Located within St Thomas’ Hospital, the museum was opened in 1989 and now forms a key part of London’s heritage-offer, with visitors arriving from across the world. The collection consists of personal material associated with Florence Nightingale, items relating to the Crimean War and nursing artefacts. The museum offers a free introductory highlights tour daily at 3.30pm with additional tours available on Saturdays and Sundays at 11.30am. Guided talks by museum staff and Florence Nightingale herself are available if booked in advance, including tours in German and Italian. The museum also offers regular appearances from costumed performers, bringing history to life. The museum gift shop and webshop offers many unique items inspired by the museums collections and Florence's fascinating life story.
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HistoricHotelFan
Philadelphia, PA109 contributions
Florence Nightingale Museum is very interesting
May 2023 • Solo
By coincidence, I visited on Florence Nightingale's birthday, which on purpose is International Nurses Day so there was extra activity, a talk by a woman in character as her! The exhibits were all very interesting.
Written 2 December 2023
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bunnySouthport
Southport, UK938 contributions
Nice place to spend an hour or so
Nov 2023 • Couples
Yes really pleased to have come here. It wasn’t expensive £10 each for concessions. I actually leant a lot about Florence Nightingale and the Crimean war. Spent about 1.5 hours here. I would certainly recommend
Written 2 November 2023
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1Magnus
Anstruther, UK77 contributions
memorable guided tour
Jun 2023 • Solo
I visited some four months ago, but am struck by how much I remember from the museum. Guide Rhiannon was kind enough to put on a guided tour just for me, and we ended up talking about a very diverse range of nineteenth-century topics. Thank you also for the recommendations of other places to visit.
Written 19 October 2023
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Adventurers049
Brisbane, Australia3,377 contributions
Fantastic museum
Oct 2023 • Couples
What a great museum of an outstanding woman.
There are plenty of excellent displays that are well labelled.
During our visit, there was a school group there that was being guided by a lady dressed like Florence. She was excellent and it was wonderful to hear and see the kids filled with enthusiasm.
Written 18 October 2023
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Yaara S
Tel Aviv, Israel74 contributions
Learn the fascinating tale of Florence Nightingale
Sep 2023 • Solo
This is a fascinating museum about the life of one of the world's most well-known nurses, Florence Nightingale. The museum explores her life through different sections, with various artifacts from each period of her life.

My one complaint concerns a school group that was at the museum that morning, which was guided by a woman portraying Florence Nightingale. While it was undoubtedly a lovely experience for the children, who seemed very engaged, it was really distracting for me. On the one hand, I was interested by it, but on the other I wanted to explore the museum by myself, so found myself of two minds - with one part of my brain wanting to listen to the presentation for the kids, while the other was trying to read up on the displays but unable to concetrate.

On my way out I advised the employee at the ticket desk that they shold inform visitors if a school group was coming, so they can choose to come later if they wished to avoid the noise. She told me they normally do warn visitors in advance, and it seems like they neglected to warn me.
Written 1 October 2023
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RobynMc15
Perth, Australia51 contributions
Go and make the time to see
Sep 2023 • Solo
I was very impressed with all the detailed presentation in the life of Florence. What an amazing woman. I was fortunate enough to be there when there was a school education lesson for maybe 7 year old. The Educator was dressed as Florence and gave these kids an insight to her life. It was fantastic.
Well worth the visit😁
Written 29 September 2023
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Karima Y
Chessington, UK33 contributions
Great informative museum.
Aug 2023 • Family
Fantastic, hands on , multisensory exhibitits. Great, passionate speakers. Kids loved it. Good visuals and audios.
Written 27 August 2023
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Joyce B
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Great
Jul 2023 • Family
Create museum, lots of facts that I didn’t know. It was very interesting to learn more about the founder nursing. Very informative
Written 30 July 2023
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Keith C
Bristol, UK4 contributions
Jewel of a museum
Jun 2023 • Family
This was a long awaited trip to this unique museum as my partner is a retired nurse and has always wanted to visit this place. FN was an amazing Victorian polymath who defied convention to become an iconic figure.
Written 17 July 2023
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Crazy_Jim_83
London, UK1,163 contributions
Good but strange layout
Jun 2023 • Solo
There’s a lady working very hard at playing Florence Nightingale and she does a good job walking around talking to visitors. The layout is all over the place so it’s not the easiest museum to follow. It’s fairly small scale but with plenty of displays. Some of the narrative is very low down, in small print and in a dark environment so I couldn’t quite read everything. Gives some useful background on the lady and her standing within Victorian society.
Written 8 June 2023
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