Southwark Council Culture & Heritage Services

Culture & Heritage Unit
Environment & Leisure
15 Spa Road
London
Greater London
SE16 3QW
England

Website

www.southwark.gov.uk

E-mail

Culture & Heritage

stephen.douglass@southwark.gov.uk

Telephone

Culture & Heritage

02075251579

Fax

Culture & Heritage

02075251568

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Southwark Council are responsible for three museums across the borough, as well as Black History Month events annually each October.
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The Cuming Museum is home to the rich and unusual collection of the Cuming family and a museum of Southwark's history. The gallery contains 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 that " My Museum illustrative of Natural Hisory, 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".
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The Livesey Museum was the UK's first interactive musem for children and creates changing exhibitions that inspire the imagination in everyone.
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The Local Studies Library and Archives is the borough archive and histoy library tells the fascinating story of the development of London's most historic borough.

Venue Type:

Museum, Library, Archive, Gallery

 Admission charges

Free

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Information point provided
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Induction loops in exhibition spaces
  • Touch exhibits
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
 Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Adult lectures and courses held
  • Loan service
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Library
  • Library with public access
  • Research facilities for academics
  • Study facilities
 Commercial and hire services
  • Licensed for weddings
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

Culture & Heritage Unit
Environment & Leisure
15 Spa Road
London
Greater London
SE16 3QW
England

Website

www.southwark.gov.uk

E-mail

Culture & Heritage

stephen.douglass@southwark.gov.uk

Telephone

Culture & Heritage

02075251579

Fax

Culture & Heritage

02075251568

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Cuming World History, Archaeology and Ethnography Collections. South London Gallery Art Collections from Victorian Paintings to Contemporary Art. Local history, archives, maps, ephemera and photogpraphs

Collection details

Archaeology, Archives, Coins and Medals, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Industry, Law and Order, Literature, Medicine, Natural Sciences, Personalities, Photography, Religion, Science and Technology, Social History, Toys and Hobbies, Trade and Commerce, Weapons and War, World Cultures

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available
  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Public access available to collections information
  • Specialist publications on collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

Culture & Heritage Unit
Environment & Leisure
15 Spa Road
London
Greater London
SE16 3QW
England

Website

www.southwark.gov.uk

E-mail

Culture & Heritage

stephen.douglass@southwark.gov.uk

Telephone

Culture & Heritage

02075251579

Fax

Culture & Heritage

02075251568

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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