The Cuming Museum in Walworth Road, within the London Borough of Southwark, London, England, houses the collection of the Cuming family and is also a museum of Southwark’s history.^[1]

The collection was gifted by Henry Syer Cuming in 1902 and the museum opened in 1906.^[2] As described in Cuming’s will it comprised, “My Museum illustrative of Natural History, Archaeology and Ethnology with my coins and medals and… other curios”.

The gallery has a temporary exhibition programme and a programme of activities for young people. It is open from Tuesday to Saturday.

The building adjoins a local library. On this site, Charles Babbage, the Victorian mechanical computer pioneer, was born in 1791, although the original house has been demolished. A blue plaque records his birth.

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• The Cuming Museum website

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