Two groups of 15, at one hour intervals, will be guided around the museum with a special opportunity to view unique items in the Picture Room.
Sir John Soane’s Museum is a national museum, displaying the extraordinary collections amassed by renowned British architect Sir John Soane, including antiquities, furniture, sculptures, architectural models and drawings, and paintings including work by Hogarth, Turner and Canaletto. One of the most successful British architects of his era, Soane was also a passionate educator, elected as a Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy in 1806. This provided Soane the initial motivation to collect: he states that upon his appointment “I began to arrange the books, casts, and models, in order that the students might have the benefit of easy access to them.” By the end of his life, Soane had amassed many thousands of objects.