The Cuming Museum
Location
The Cuming Museum
London
Project Summary
The three galleries at the Cuming Museum contain a variety of hands on activities for younger visitors as well as a lively temporary exhibition programme.
Henry Syer Cuming left the collection amassed by himself and his father Richard to the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark when he died in 1902.
His will stated “My museum illustrative of natural history, archaeology and ethnology with my coins and medals and along with all other curios” be exhibited in “a suitable and spacious gallery or apartments in connection with Newington Public Library.”
The museum was to be known as the Cuming Museum and he left a sum of money to employ a curator. The museum was opened in 1906 by Lord Rothschild.