Round the back of St Thomas's Hospital is this small museum. I baulked at the £7.50 admission fee but, despite the museum's small size, it is packed with material about Florence Nightingale herself and her family, the Crimean War and the later part of her long life. Display items and explanatory text are reinforced by a series of informative audio clips, including one on which you can hear Florence's voice, recorded on a phonograph as an old lady. The museum rightly offers a balanced view of her and I got quite a good sense of who she was, what drove her and what she was like as a person. She was quite enigmatic and probably very difficult to work with, but it seems her famed hypochondria in later life probably wasn't: she really was ill. You probably have to be interested in 19th century social history or nursing to find this museum worthwhile but if you're around Waterloo or Westminster and have time to kill or want to get out of the rain you could do much worse than come here.