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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.
Nearest tube station:
Elephant & Castle (662 yards)
Tel: (020) 7525 2332
Web: www.southwark.gov.uk/cumingmuseumTel: (020) 7525 2332
Open: Closed until further notice
News & features about Cuming Museum
- Southwark's Dog & Pot at Dickens Museum 6 Aug 2014
- £1.2m library to open in Elephant & Castle shipping containers 11 Mar 2014
- Burglars steal artefacts from burnt-out Cuming Museum 12 Apr 2013
- John Harvard Library now open 7 days a week 3 Apr 2013
- Walworth town hall fire: council takes stock and looks to future 30 Mar 2013
- Massive fire at Walworth Town Hall; fears for Cuming Museum collection 25 Mar 2013
- Charles Dickens' great-great-grandson unveils Dog and Pot sculpture 6 Feb 2013
- Dog and Pot sculpture installed in Blackfriars Road 4 Feb 2013
- Dog and pot sculpture to be installed as Dickens bicentenary year ends 6 Dec 2012
- Elephant & Castle Walking Challenge launched 23 Oct 2012
- 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
Forum discussions about Cuming Museum
- Southwark Street building [TfL / Landmark Court / Crossbones]
- New family advocacy group for Elephant, Borough, Camberwell
- The Cuming Museum
- Durkan ?Housing at the top of Walworth Road?
- Tooley Street eastbound closed for next two yrs
- Cuming Museum - all staff made redundant
- Walworth Town Hall & Cuming Museum fire (was: Smoke near E&C)
- Blackfriars Road ‘dog and pot’ sign to be recreated for Dickens bicentenary
- Build a new Town Hall?
- Simon Hughes blasts council's "soulless" Tooley Street HQ as town halls are put up for sale
- Volunteering
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- Kids' stuff in SE1?
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- Old Pictures of SE1 & surrounding area
- Home in Elephant
- Cuming Museum
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Restaurants, pubs & bars near Cuming Museum
- Hoa Phuong 224 yards
- El Costenito 256 yards
- Chatkhara 282 yards
- Casa Colombia 294 yards
- Theo's Pizzeria 338 yards
- Restaurante La Negra 340 yards
- La Bodeguita 348 yards
- Sabor Peruano 352 yards
- After Taste Chinese Restaurant 366 yards
- Crown and Anchor 430 yards
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