Florence Nightingale Museum (London)

The Florence Nightingale Museum is situated at St, Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1. It's one of those places that I had heard of but never had the opportunity to visit. I was actually at St. Thomas' so I decide it might be worthwhile taking a look and I wasn't disappointed. Florence Nightingale is famous for the huge impact she made on modern nursing practise. This museum covers the Crimean War and her tremendous contribution to caring for the wounded and her dedication to her vocation. Admission is £5.80 which sounds quite a lot, but I thought it was worth it as it not something that I will probably ever ...  Read the complete review

Finding myself in London with an afternoon free and wanting to make it worthwhile having spent the usual extortionate amount to pay for the pleasure of riding in a noisy, crowded and dirty train I wanted to find somewhere cheap that I could spend my time in a constructive way. Having consulted the 2 for 1 offer booklet for all ye long suffering locomotive travellers (you can probably tell that me and trains do not see eye to eye) I stumbled across the Florence Nightingale Museum for a mere £5.80 (with two of us going that worked out at £2.90 - nice!). Thinking that yes, since there was such a huge gap in my Florence Nightingale / Crimean War knowledge that ...  Read the complete review