Museum launches campaign to acquire Florence Nightingale’s customised wheelchair

Florence Nightingale Museum’s learning manager Laura Sharpe (Florence Nightingale Museum/PA)

The Florence Nightingale Museum has launched a public campaign to obtain the wheelchair used by the nursing pioneer in her London home after her return from the Crimean War.

Nightingale used the customised mahogany and iron chair, with a red and tan floral brocade seat cover, in her Mayfair home as she fought through illness to transform healthcare and inspire generations of nurses across the world.