Cuming Museum
Category: Education
The Cuming Museum is home to the rich and unusual collection of the Cuming family and a museum of Southwark's history. Henry Syer Cuming left the collection 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".