Cuming Museum
Just a few yards outside SE1 and the nearest thing there is to a museum of local history.
Between 1780 and 1900 Richard & Henry Cuming collected more than 100,000 objects from all over the world. Henry left his collection to the people of Southwark, and the Cuming Museum opened in 1906.
In 2006 the museum moved from the Newington Library building to the adjacent former Walworth Town Hall.
Web: www.southwark.gov.uk/DiscoverSouthwark/Museums/TheCumingMuseum
Open: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm
Admission FREE
Open: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm
Admission FREE
News & features about Cuming Museum
- Community: The Elephant & Castle exhibition at the Cuming Museum (5 Jan 2009)
- Hogarth's Southwark Fair on show at Cuming Museum (19 Nov 2007)
- Pearly King of Bankside's suit donated to Southwark museum (29 Apr 2005)
- Cuming Museum snaps up Bert Hardy pic (2 Jun 2004)
- Write on your Doorstep: Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickens (6 Apr 2004)
- Tabard Street Roman inscription now on display (4 Jul 2003)
- Major find at SE1 archaeological dig (13 Oct 2002)
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Restaurants, pubs & bars close to Cuming Museum
- Elephant Road Cafe (276 yards)
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- El Paisita (374 yards)
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