Nightingale in 200 Objects, People and Places, Florence Nightingale museum, London: 8 March 2020-7 March 2021

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The 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing, has prompted the museum dedicated to her to shine light on different aspects of her life in an exhibition of 200 objects.

“Most people in the world have heard of Florence Nightingale, but they don’t really know her full story”.

In her bicentenary year the Florence Nightingale museum is celebrating the life and legacy of the lesser known aspects of Nightingale’s life with this exciting new exhibition. She is well known as a nurse, but she was also a female icon in her own lifetime, a healthcare pioneer, statistician and leader and one of Britain’s greatest female trailblazers!

As well as discovering numerous objects and people that influenced Nightingale’s career you can see the original Lamp she carried in the Crimean War, her (much used!) writing case, her copy of Oliver Twist (Dickens was a friend of her) and a family album containing unseen sketches of Florence and the Nightingale family.

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Henry Hering (1814-1893) / Public domain
Henry Hering (1814-1893) / Public domain

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