The Florence Nightingale Museum is located at St Thomas' Hospital, which faces the Palace of Westminster across the River Thames in South Bank, central London, England.
The museum tells the real story of Florence Nightingale, "the lady with the lamp", from her Victorian childhood to her experiences in the Crimean, through to her years as an ardent campaigner for health reform.
[3] The Gilded Cage tells the story of Nightingale's privileged childhood and her struggle against stifling social conventions.
The Calling shows how Nightingale and her team coped with the crisis in the military hospitals where the legend of the lady with the lamp was born.
The museum displays a rare Register of Nurses that lists women who served under Nightingale in the military hospitals in Turkey and the Crimean.