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17 Sep 2020. When the Museum reopens on 1 October visitors will once again enter through Sir John Soane’s front door at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields. For the first time in the Museum’s history, they will follow a one-way route through Soane’s carefully curated interiors and arrangements of works of art. Soane wrote his own descriptions of ...
Christina Scull, The Soane Hogarths, 1991 Peter Thornton and Helen Dorey, A Miscellany of Objects from Sir John Soane's Museum, 1992, pp. VIII, 44, 126, fig. 38 Ronald Paulson, Hogarth, 1993, Vol. III, pp. 152-184 and passim David Bindman, Hogarth and his Times: Serious Comedy, Exhibition Catalogue, British Museum, 1997
Opening up the Soane was our long-term project to restore and improve the Museum. Since 2011 we’ve been working hard to develop our existing buildings and create new spaces that will make the Museum even more enjoyable and inspiring. We want to ensure people can see more of Soane’s wonderful home, and engage with his legacy in new ways. The first phase saw the full renovation of No.12 ...
One of the Museum's most renowned treasures is the sarcophagus of the Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I. Located in the Sepulchral Chamber in the basement of Sir John Soane’s Museum, this vast sarcophagus was built to entomb the Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I (died 1279 BC). Seti I ruled Egypt at a time when it was an important military power; his son ...
Sir John Soane's Museum comprises his collections and personal effects, acquired between the 1780s and his death in 1837. Our collections contain many important works of art and antiquities, architectural drawings, historical volumes, historical architectural models as well as important examples of furniture and decorative arts.
25 de feb. de 2019 · Fig. 2. Soane office hand: att. Charles James Richardson, side elevation of a Neo-Gothic version of Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, 7 May 1824, SM 54/2/18. ©Sir John Soane’s Museum. Photograph: Ardon Bar Hama. Nevertheless, the Soane office produced seven designs for a Neo-Gothic church: four are held in the Soane Museum, and three are held ...
A History of Conservation. Soane himself cared for his collections. He had pictures cleaned and frames re-gilded - in one year he bought 654 books of gold leaf for this purpose alone. He also had blinds installed throughout his house to prevent damage from light. After his death, the Museum’s curators during the 19th and 20th centuries ...
