Florence Nightingale Museum

Florence Nightingale Museum is located in the Hospital of St. Tomasz, at which Florence Nightingale founded the first school of nurses in the world in 1860. The museum has a collection of about 3,000 exhibits related to the history of nursing. It also contains valuable personal items, including the little owl figurine that Nightingale always carried in her apron pocket.

After the exhibition was renewed in 2010, it was divided into three parts, presenting the subsequent stages of Nightingale's life and career: the first is devoted to childhood in an aristocratic family, the second describes the period of the Crimean War and work in military hospitals in Istanbul, the third shows the activities for reform health care providers.

The Florence Nightingale Museum exhibitions combine artifacts traditionally presented in museums with numerous multimedia - an electronic guide works here, many 'listening' stations have been created, and most of the exhibits are available in digitized form.