Horniman Museum
The Horniman Museum opens a window onto worlds far from today’s routine. Commissioned in 1898 and designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Modern Style, the building itself—now Grade II* listed—stands on London Road in Forest Hill, with its distinctive Art Nouveau lines guiding your eye as you arrive. You’re surrounded by rooms and campaigns that grew from Frederick John Horniman’s 30,000-item collection, amassed after a lifetime of travel and the family’s tea business fortune. Inside, you’ll find displays spanning anthropology, natural history, and musical instruments, with a notable trove of taxidermied animals that used to form a cornerstone of the gallery’s wonder. An important secondary building to the west was added in 1911 by Emslie Horniman, and a later extension by Allies and Morrison opened in 2002, expanding the museum’s footprint and перforming arts spaces. …
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