Buildings in London: Horniman Museum

Horniman Museum. Photography © Peter Cook

Horniman Museum

100 London Road
Forest Hill
London
SE23 3PQ.

Tel: + 44 (0)20 8699 1872

http://www.horniman.ac.uk/

The Horniman Museum was designed in 1898 by Charles Harrison Townsend, a leading architect of the Arts and Crafts movement who also designed the Whitechapel Art Gallery.

The client was a Victorian tea trader, Frederick John Horniman, who wanted a new museum to house his collection of specimens and artefacts from around the world. Horniman's mission was to bring the world to London, and he even opened part of his family home to the public so people could view the riches he had collected.