Horniman Museum
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The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a museum in Forest Hill, London, England. Commissioned in 1898, it opened in 1901 and was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Modern Style. It has displays
The bandstand overlooking the London skyline
Humanity in the House of Circumstance
The totem pole
Museum front and tower
Frederick Horniman
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Frederick John Horniman was an English tea trader and founder of the Horniman Museum in London. He was brought up and lived in Croydon's Park Hill area.
Horniman Museum
…and registered charity under English law. In 2022 the museum won Museum of the Year, an award made by the Art Fund. The museum was founded in 1901 by Frederick John Horniman. Frederick had inherited his father's Horniman's Tea business, which by 1891 had become the world's biggest tea trading business. The proceeds from the…
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Frederick Horniman by Trevor Haddon (detail)
Frederick J. Horniman