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/cumingmuseum
Open: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm
Admission FREE
Open: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm
Admission FREE
News & features about Cuming Museum
- Woodcarver measures Dickensian wooden dog for replica (25 Mar 2012)
- Southwark celebrates 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth (8 Feb 2012)
- Blackfriars Road 'dog and pot' sign to be recreated for Dickens bicentenary (7 Feb 2012)
- Maggi Hambling to create Dickens sculpture for Tabard Street (6 Feb 2012)
- Charles Dickens and Southwark: Lottery cash for bicentenary projects (6 Feb 2012)
- Forgotten Southwark artist Austin Osman Spare honoured (30 Sep 2010)
- John Harvard Library reopens after £1.4 million revamp (16 Nov 2009)
- Last chance to see Lost Southwark exhibition at Cuming Museum (20 Aug 2009)
- 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
- South East Fish & Chips (248 yards)
- Beijing Chinese Food (248 yards)
- Ivory Arch (276 yards)
- Chatkhara (306 yards)
- Los Arrieros (320 yards)
- My Big Fat Greek (352 yards)
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- La Bodeguita (372 yards)
- Donde Lucho (374 yards)
- The Well (388 yards)
- Cafe Nova Interchange (444 yards)
- Crown and Anchor (444 yards)
- Five Star (456 yards)
- Tai Tip Mein (458 yards)
- Jenny's Burgers (464 yards)
- Sundial Cafe (468 yards)