Travel Reference
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SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
HUNTERIAN MUSEUM
Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields Holborn or Temple 020 7869 6560,
www.rcseng.ac.uk
.Tues-Sat 10am-5pm.Free.
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Containing the unique specimen collection of the surgeon-scientist John Hunter (1728-93),
the Hunterian Museum first opened in 1813. Since most of the exhibits are jars of pickled
skeletons and body pieces, it's certainly not a museum for the squeamish. Among the prize
exhibits are the skeletons of the Irish giant, Charles Byrne (1761-83), who was seven feet
ten inches tall, and the Sicilian dwarf Caroline Crachami (d.1824), who was just one foot
ten and a half inches when she died at the age of nine.
DR JOHNSON'S HOUSE
17 Gough Square Blackfriars or Temple 020 7353 3745,
www.drjohnsonshouse.org
.May-Sept Mon-Sat
11am-5.30pm; Oct-April Mon-Sat 11am-5pm.£4.50.
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