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Anaesthesia Heritage Centre
Anaesthesia Heritage Centre
Anaesthesia Heritage Centre, London

0.54km

History of anaesthesia and the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and IrelandRead more

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British Dental Association Museum
British Dental Association Museum
British Dental Association Museum, 64 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 8YS

0.62km

History of dental care in the United KingdomRead more

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British Optical Association Museum
British Optical Association Museum
British Optical Association Museum, 42 Craven Street, London, WC2N 5NG

0.62km

History of eye careRead more

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Galton Collection
Galton Collection
Galton Collection, London

0.68km

Part of the University College London, open by appointment only, scientific instruments, papers, and personal...Read more

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Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE

0.86km

Medical artefacts and original artworks exploring 'ideas about the connections between medicine, life and art',...Read more

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Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons
Hunterian Museum
Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE

0.89km

Hunterian Collection of preserved anatomical specimens, history, artefacts and developments in surgery, part of the...Read more

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Royal College of Physicians
Royal College of Physicians Museum
Royal College of Physicians, 11 Saint Andrews Place, London, NW1 4LE

0.92km

Portraits, silver, medical instruments and artefactsRead more

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Foundling Museum
Foundling Museum
Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ

1.03km

History of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first home for abandoned children, art by many of Britain's most...Read more

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Florence Nightingale Museum
Florence Nightingale Museum
Florence Nightingale Museum, 2 Lambeth Palace Road, London, SE1 7EW

1.24km

Life and nursing work of Florence NightingaleRead more

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Museum of the Order of St John
Museum of the Order of St John
Museum of the Order of St John, 26 Saint John's Lane, London, EC1M 4DA

1.57km

History of the Order of St John and its medical care in the communityRead more

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St Bartholomew's Hospital
St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum
St Bartholomew's Hospital, St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum, North Wing, St Bartholomew’s Hospital,, West Smithfield, London , EC1A 7BE

1.58km

History of the hospital and its work, historic surgical instruments, sculpture, mediaeval archives, works of art...Read more

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Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
Fleming Museum
Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum, 135a Praed Street, London, W2 1QY

1.59km

Located at St Mary's Hospital, London, site and history of Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin, 1928 period...Read more

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British Red Cross
British Red Cross Museum and Archives
British Red Cross, 44 Moorfields, London, EC2Y 9AL

2.1km

History and memorabilia of the British Red Cross, open by appointment onlyRead more

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Gordon Museum of Pathology
Gordon Museum of Pathology
Gordon Museum of Pathology, London, SE1 1XT

2.14km

The largest medical Museum in the United Kingdom,[8] part of King's College LondonRead more

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Old Operating Theatre
Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
Old Operating Theatre, 9a Saint Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RY

2.15km

19th century operating theatre, herb garret and museum of surgeryRead more

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Chelsea Physic Garden
Chelsea Physic Garden
Chelsea Physic Garden, Curators House, 66 Royal Hospital Road, London, SW3 4HS

2.3km

Botanical garden with displays on medicinal uses of plantsRead more

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Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum
Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum
Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum, 66-68 East Smithfield, London, E1W 1AW

2.95km

British pharmacy history, medicines and artefactsRead more

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FAQs about Soho and Medical Museums in London


Oxford Street borders four different districts of London, Soho, Fitzrovia, Marylebone, and Mayfair .



Oxford Street is located in the borough of Westminster in central London.

Oxford Street can be considered to form part of the districts of Fitzrovia, Soho and Mayfair .



The best nightclubs in London and their location is rather subjective as there are great clubs in different areas of London each with a different vibe. Mayfair tends to have the most exclusive celebrity clubs whilst east London is a little bit cooler.

Soho has some good places too although you won't rub shoulders with high society if you cross over Regent Street.



London's China Town is located in central London around Gerrard Street, close to Leicester Square. The nearest tube stations are Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus.



The main areas in London for the best London clubs are Mayfair and Soho. Shoreditch and East London are becoming increasing popular too.


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Blue Plaques in London

Maria Louise Ramé Blue Plaque - Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée) 1839-1908 novelist lived here
Turkish Bronze Gun And John Duckworth Bronze Plaque - This Turkish bronze gun was cast in 1790-91 (AH 1212) in the reign of  the Ottoman Sultan Selim III. It weighs 5.2 tonnes, fired stone shot   of just over 56 kilos and is one of two taken by Admiral Sir John Duckworth  from Kinali Island in the Sea of Marmara in 1807.    The gun was presented to the Royal Naval Asylum at Greenwich by  HRH Prince Ernest, Duke of Cumberland on 21 October 1807.  The cast-iron display carriage was made later by the Royal Carriage  Department of the Royal Arsenal, Wo
Charles Dickens Blue Plaque - Charles Dickens 1812-1870 writer, journalist and social reformer
Philip Henry Gosse And Edmund Gosse Blue Plaque - Here lived Philip Henry Gosse 1810-1888  zoologist Sir Edmund Gosse 1849-1928  writer and critic born here
Joseph Lyons Blue Plaque - Sir Joseph Lyons 1847-1917 Pioneer of mass catering lived here
Henry Austen And Jane Austen Blue Plaque - Jane Austen novelist, stayed with her brother Henry in a house on this site 1814-1815

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