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Nightingale's own lamp, her stuffed owl and her statistics, at the hospital where she founded modern nursing.
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Florence Nightingale came home from the Crimean War in 1856 the most famous woman in England after the Queen, and used the fame: with the money the public raised in her name she founded the first training school for nurses at St Thomas' Hospital in 1860, and the museum stands at the hospital, facing Parliament across the river. It follows her through three rooms: the gilded cage of a rich Victorian girlhood she fought her way out of; the calling, the military hospitals at Scutari where she and thirty-eight nurses took on filth and the army, and where the legend of the lady with the lamp was made; and the reform, the forty years afterwards spent from her bed writing reports and drawing the charts that showed a government where its soldiers were really dying, which made her the first woman elected to the Royal Statistical Society. The lamp is here, a folding Turkish lantern rather than the oil lamp of the statues, with her medicine chest, her letters and Athena, the owl she rescued in Athens and carried in her pocket.
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| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 10:00 – 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 – 17:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 – 17:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 – 17:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 – 17:00 |
| Sunday | 10:00 – 17:00 |
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