- Wikidata identifier:
- Q5460739
- Instance of:
- building; museum; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 584
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q5460739/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Personalia Collection
Most of the collection originated as a collection of “Nightingalia” which was looked after by the Matron of St Thomas’ Hospital. The collection came to the Museum when it opened in 1989 and has since grown and developed. The collection consists of items owned or used by Florence Nightingale including material relating from her childhood, education, costume, accessories, domestic objects, working life, and travel souvenirs. Also portraits and photographs of Florence Nightingale and material connected with the Crimean War (1854-56). Military, hospital and nursing objects are represented and items connected with the Nightingale Training School and St. Thomas’ Hospital. There is a collection of 63 letters from Florence Nightingale and, on deposit at the London Metropolitan Archives, a further 700 letters from Florence Nightingale and other related papers. The collection also includes 60 oral history recordings from Nurses and Patients from Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals and the Evelina Children’s Hospital.
Subjects
Military operations; Primary school curriculum; Health; Secondary school curriculum; Battles; Victorian period; Health education; Nursing; History of medicine; Social history; People; Roles; Military medicine
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC