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ENGLAND
Florence Nightingale – British nursing pioneer
Florence Nightingale Museum
(on the site of St Thomas’ Hospital)
2 Lambeth Palace Road
London SE1 7EW
UK
Ph: +44 20 7620 0374
Fax: +44 20 7928 1760
Email: info@florence-nightingale.co.uk
Website: www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
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The museum is on the Thames Embankment, a stone's
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The museum is located on the original site of St Thomas’ Hospital
where Florence Nightingale founded the world’s first school
of nursing in 1860. Opened in 1989, the museum houses a unique collection
of her personal mementoes, clothing, furniture, books, letters and
portraits as well as Crimean War relics and nursing material, and
aims to grow as the international centre for preserving Florence
Nightingale's heritage and interpreting the relevance of her life
and work for the benefit of the present and future generations.
Founded by Rosemary Rigby MBE, the museum opened in 2000 in the
grounds of her home, Cartref House. It is a unique memorial to Violette
Szabó (1921-1945), who was a British secret agent in France
during WWII with the SOE (Special Operations Executive), and was
executed at Ravensbruch Concentration Camp in January 1945. British
actress Virginia McKenna, who had portrayed Violette in “Carve
Her Name With Pride” (1958), launched the appeal to build the
museum in 1998. Cartref House had originally been the home of Violette’s
uncle and where she had spent many holidays in her youth.
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