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Horniman Museum

The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a in , , England. Commissioned in 1898, it opened in 1901 and was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Modern Style.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Forest Hill, London, England, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Horniman Aquarium” and “Horniman Museum and Gardens”
  • Address: 100 London Road, London, SE23 3PQ
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Coombe Cliffe Conservatory and Forest Hill railway station.

Building
Photo: Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a building.

Railway station
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Forest Hill is an interchange station between the Windrush line of the London Overground and National Rail services operated by Southern, located in in the . is situated 1,900 feet east of Horniman Museum.

Nature reserve
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a ten-hectare wood on the northern slopes of the Norwood Ridge in the . It is designated as a Local Nature Reserve and Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Forest Hill and Perry Vale.

Suburb
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is a district of the in , England, on the South Circular Road, which is home to the Horniman Museum.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood and electoral ward in the . It is 10.5 km southeast of Charing Cross and located near to the east of , where the railway line forms the western boundary.

Suburb
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is an area based in , England. The settlement is mostly in the , with parts in the , and consists of , , , and the Southwark half of .

Horniman Museum

Latitude
51.44103° or 51° 26′ 28″ north
Longitude
-0.06099° or 0° 3′ 40″ west
Open location code
9C3XCWRQ+CJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 210442848
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q1628487
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Welsh—“Horniman Museum” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Museu Horniman”
  • Catalan: “Museum Horniman”
  • Chinese: “霍尼曼博物館”
  • Chinese: “霍尼曼博物馆”
  • Czech: “Horniman Museum”
  • Dutch: “Horniman Museum”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo Horniman”
  • French: “musée Horniman”
  • French: “Musée Horniman”
  • German: “Horniman Museum”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο Χόρνιμαν”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון הורנימן”
  • Irish: “Músaem Horniman”
  • Italian: “Horniman Museum and Gardens”
  • Italian: “Horniman Museum”
  • Japanese: “ホーニマン博物館”
  • Polish: “Horniman Museum”
  • Slovak: “Horniman Museum”
  • Swedish: “Horniman Museum”
  • Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์ฮอร์นิมัน”
  • Turkish: “Horniman Müzesi”
  • Welsh: “Amgueddfa Horniman”
  • “Horniman Museum”
  • “Horniman Museum & Gardens”
  • “Horniman Museum and Gardens”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Display garden and Sound Garden.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Horniman Museum”. Photo: No Swan So Fine, CC BY-SA 4.0.