Historical information

This is an information pamphlet about the Florence Nightingale Museum, London
Florence Nightingale helped to set up the Nightingale Training School at St Thomas’s Hospital in 1860. Following the first intake of 15 ‘probationer’ trainee nurses, the school improved and expanded over the following decades, spreading Nightingale’s ideas of nurse training across the world. The school was overseen by the Matrons of St Thomas’s Hospital.
During her time as Matron of St Thomas’s, Dame Alicia Lloyd Still started to collect objects that had belonged to Nightingale or that Nightingale had gifted to some of the nurses who had trained at the Nightingale Training School.
The objects that Lloyd Still collected were held at the Nightingale Training School and came to be known as the ‘Nightingalia’. The objects were used by the probationer nurses as a teaching tool and occasionally they would be used for exhibitions, or to mark key anniversaries and events.
The collection transferred to the newly created Florence Nightingale Museum Trust in 1983, who then opened the museum on the site of the Training School in 1989.
Since then the museum has continued to grow and has welcomed thousands of visitors from around the world, sharing Nightingales legacy, celebrating Nursing and inspiring the next generation of nurses

Significance

Provides information about a significant nursing museum

Physical description

Pamphlet folded in thirds, front of papmlet has a black and white photograph of Florence Nightingale, photographs of items from the collection, as well as a map and transport information

Inscriptions & markings

Previous catalogue number handwitten [black ink] on small white sticker on front