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Florence Nightingale Museum

Address: 2 Lambeth Palace Rd., entrance parallel to embankment on Lambeth Palace Rd., South Bank, London, SE1 7EH | Map It
Phone: 020/7620-0374
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: South Bank

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Fodor's Review:

Here you can learn all about the founder of the first school of nursing, that most famous of health-care reformers, "the Lady with the Lamp." See the reconstruction of the barracks ward at Scutari, Turkey, where she tended soldiers during the Crimean War (1854-56) and earned her nickname. There's also a Victorian East End slum cottage showing what she did to improve living conditions among the poor—and the famous lamp. The museum is in St. Thomas's Hospital, which was built in 1868 to the specifications of Florence Nightingale. Most of it was bombed to bits in the Blitz, then rebuilt to become one of London's teaching hospitals.

Cost: £5.80
Open: Weekdays 10-5, last admission 4, weekends 10-4:30, last admission 3:30
Tube: Waterloo, Westminster

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