The Thinking Nurse exhibition

A new exhibition at the Florence Nightingale Museum looks at nursing education from the early years of the Nightingale Training School in Victorian London through to the 1970s. This display explores nursing and midwifery education at both St Thomas’ Hospital and King’s College Hospital, both of which were linked to Florence Nightingale in the 1860s and were once again linked together in 1993 when the nursing schools were merged.

Through rarely seen items from the archives of the Museum, King’s College London and the London Metropolitan Archives, the exhibition focuses on the experiences of learning and the lives of the students, and the international legacy of Nightingale and her nurses.

The exhibition was curated by Dr Rosemary Wall and Professor Anne Marie Rafferty from the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, along with Rebecca Lodge from the Museum.