Horniman Museum

This little jewel of South London has been hiding away in Forest Hill forever, the cheeky devil. I lived in Oval and Dulwich years ago and it's only now 6 years later and living in Peckham that I've been told about it. Without bothering to look anything up, from memory this Horniman person sailed the world collecting weird and wonderful artifacts including rare and wonderful bits, bobs, taxidermy, art, skeletons, paper mache, dead dogs, jellyfish, keys, armoury, potions, snake skins, heads on a rope and the like to bring adventure and wonder to the people of Forest Hill, who unlike him, were extremely unlikely to go any further than the Number 39 to Aldwych. The collection is similar to The Oxford Pitman Museum and there seems no rhyme or reason to the layout - there are pufferfish displayed alongside ornate trinkets
and so on..
There are also gardens and an amazeballs conservatory where you can sip tea and try desperately to forget you're in Forest Hill. Well worth a visit if only for the aquarium. Hold your horses, it's only small, you can wander around it in half an hour but it's great nonetheless. The jelly fish tank, like some sort of undulating aquatic lava lamp will have you mesmerised for oh at least 7 minutes. No really it's good.