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Opening Hours
Sunday: 10:00 – 17:00
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
Admissions
Adult
£6.50
Child
£3.50
Concession
£5.00
What's not to miss inside?
The Crimean Story
How logistics, hygiene and data cut deathsNightingale’s wards flipped outcomes not by heroics but by systems: ventilation, laundry, supplies—and counting.
📍 Introductory gallery
The Lamp & Legend
Icon versus realityThe ‘Lady with the Lamp’ image sold the story; the reality was paperwork, procurement and training at scale.
📍 Central case
Statistics & the ‘Coxcomb’
Persuasion by pictureHer polar area chart made ministers see deaths as fixable, not fate—early data-viz that moved budgets.
📍 Data displays
Training the Nurse
From calling to professionCurricula, uniforms and exams turned care into a career with standards and status.
📍 Education section
🤓 Fun Facts
Nightingale’s pet owl, ‘Athena’, travelled in her pocket as a student—its tiny taxidermy is on display.
Her polar area ‘coxcomb’ chart is among the first high-impact public-health infographics, used to push sanitation funding through Whitehall.
Day tickets are typically valid for 12 months—a helpful perk if you’re staying nearby or bringing family later.
