Florence Nightingale Museum

St Thomas’s Hospital, 2 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 (020 7620 0374)

Westminster tube/Waterloo tube/rail. Open 10am-5pm Mon-Fri (last entry 4pm); 11.30am-4.30pm Sat, Sun (last entry 3.30pm). Admission ?4.80; ?3.60 5s-15s, OAPs, students, ES40s; ?10 family. Credit AmEx, MC, ?TC, V.

Website: http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk

The world’s most famous
nurse is celebrated in the well thought-out displays of this small
museum, close to Westminster Bridge. Nightingale’s chief achievement in
a long career of social campaigning was to establish nursing as a
disciplined profession (indeed, ?her lady and the lamp’ care in the
Crimea was but a small part of her life’s contribution to medicine);
and she set up the first nursing school at St Thomas’s in 1859.