Sir John Soane's Museum 🏛️🖼️
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The extraordinary house & museum of Sir John Soane, renowned architect and collector. Open Wednesday to Sunday. Entry free.
Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
Joined June 2012
Did you know you can explore Sir John Soane’s Museum wherever you are, with our free digital guide on @bbgconnects 📲. 🔎Just scan our QR code at the entrance to the Museum, or download the Bloomberg Connects app and search for Sir John Soane’s Museum!.#BloombergConnects
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There are still a few tickets left to join our Sketch at the Soane workshop this weekend - sketch in our Exhibition Gallery and join a guided session with artist James Willis in our dedicated Art Studio. 📅17 Aug 2025, 9.30am - 12.30pm.🔗#whatsonlondon.
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Join us for a special drawing workshop in celebration of our current Richard Rogers: Talking Buildings exhibition. Led by artist James Willis, your day will begin with a rare opportunity to draw in...
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Built between 1808-09, the Dome Area is one of the oldest and most atmospheric spaces in Sir John Soane’s Museum🤩. Come and experience this space for yourself, or join a highlights tour to uncover more of its fascinating history🏛️✨. 📸Photos: Kevin Mu.#WhatsonLondon
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Not everything is centre stage!.Take a look at some of the amazing details, artworks and artefacts tucked away in corners of Sir John Soane’s Museum. ✨ Which hidden details caught your eye on your latest visit?
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You can enjoy this fantastic piece up close on our Highlights Tours, where our guides reveal some of the hidden treasures behind Soane’s Picture Planes🤩. 🎟️Book now:
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The classic tour of the Museum, our Highlights Tour will transport you back to Regency London, taking you through Sir John Soane's extraordinary home, left as it was at the time of his death in...
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Callcott was an English painter born in 1779. While he received significant praise during his lifetime, his work became overshadowed by J M W Turner’s increasing popularity. Ironically, Soane actually commissioned this painting from Callcott after rejecting a painting by Turner!.
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This evocative painting transports you to Italy😍. 'The Passage Point – an Italian composition', by Sir Augustus Callcott, is an Italian landscape commissioned by Soane in 1829, which can be found behind Picture Planes in Soane's Picture Room!. But who was Callcott?⤵️
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Your visit to Sir John Soane's Museum begins before you even step inside!🏛️. Museum Director @will_gompertz discusses Soane’s design for No 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, which gives visitors a hint as to what wonders are inside 🌟
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Looking up, an asymmetrical arrangement of objects on the ceiling continues, and in true Soane style the room glows with soft, golden light from the yellow skylights above – make sure you spend some time exploring this incredible space on your next visit to the Museum!🌞
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Hung on the walls is a large number of antique marble fragments with personal significance for Soane, having belonged to his teacher the architect Henry Holland. Notably there is a portion of a Roman altar displayed on the chimney, dating back to the first century AD.
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A small space, filled to the brim with interest!. Soane’s Little Study, depicted in this 1822 watercolour by Gandy, was a very personal space, where Soane would have worked on architectural designs, preparing for meetings with contractors & students. But what is on display?⤵️
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It’s not known how Soane acquired this piece, but he mistakenly believed it to be the design for the ceiling of the Painted Hall at Greenwich, Thornhill’s most famous surviving masterpiece. It now hangs behind hidden planes in Soane's Picture Room!.
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A ceiling fit for a royal👑.This glorious design by Sir James Thornhill - an English painter working in the Italian baroque tradition - is for the Queen’s State Bedchamber at Hampton Court Palace, painted for Hanoverian king George I who ascended the throne in 1714!
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Dive deeper into Soane's fascination with the Bard in our upcoming after-hours tour: Soane & Shakespeare, where our guides will regale you with stories & hidden treasures from the collection!.🎟️
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Join us on a midsummers night for an after-hours tour of the Museum exploring the influence the great playwright had on the life and home of Sir John Soane and the wider background of the Shakespea...
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Tucked away in a quiet corner of Sir John Soane's Museum, is a shrine to Shakespeare! 🎭
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And they say romance is dead – we disagree! 💘🖼️. Museum Director @Will_Gompertz explains the story behind this lovely sketch by sculptor and artist John Flaxman, who would have turned 269 this month!
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🖼️You can explore the exquisite collection of Adam drawings purchased by Sir John Soane 200 years ago online:
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This design shows Adam's versatility, creating everything from structures and interiors to furniture and even instrument cases!. There's no evidence this was built, but a similar design was executed for Welsh baronet Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, now at the National Museum of Wales.
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Robert Adam, one of the greatest 18th-century architects, would have turned 297 today!. We're celebrating with one of his lesser-known designs – a delightful organ case for Prince Edward Augustus (King George III's younger brother) for his townhouse, Cumberland House🎹 [thread⤵️]
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RT @newcriterion: Our critic’s pick: “George Dance the Younger—a bicentennial celebration,” presented by Sir John Soane’s Museum (through D….
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