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Every day we are closed means that we lose income needed to feed and care for our animals and fish, and to continue to maintain our gardens which remain open to the public.
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Opening Hours
The Museum is currently closed.

The Gardens are open from 7.15 am (Monday to Saturday) or 8am (Sunday and Bank Holidays) until 8.50pm.
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How to find us
Forest Hill is on the London Overground, is 15 minutes from London Bridge by train, and is served by lots of buses.
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Horniman Museum and Gardens
100 London Road
Forest Hill
London
SE23 3PQ
The Horniman Gardens are free to visit
The Museum, Animal Walk and Butterfly House remain closed.
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A bee hovers by a tall orange spike of flower made up of lots of tiny flowers. There is gravel and more plants in the background
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Grasslands Garden

Open daily
(except 25 December)
The Grasslands Garden celebrates critically threatened wild landscapes. It has…
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A boy and a girl hold hands laughing as they run towards the camera. They are in a Garden, running along a paved path. To their right and behind them are colourful flowerbeds with yellow and red flowers
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Gardens

Open daily, except 25 December
Alongside the Grasslands and Sunken Gardens are a number of other fields,…
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