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Sir John Soane was a renowned English architect in the early 19th century, and he built his house / museum opposite Lincoln’s Inn Fields around 1809. He was quite eccentric, and collected a vast amount of drawings, paintings, and antiques, as well as sculptures, architectural models made of plaster and marble, and curiously a huge alabaster sarcophagus of Seti I, covered in Egyptian hieroglyphs.
4 de ene. de 2024 · Highlights and Private Apartments Tour. 4 January, 2024 - 31 December, 2025. Tickets: £20. The classic tour of the Museum, our Highlights Tours 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 1837. Book Now Read more.
Known for its whimsical and personal interiors, every aspect of Sir John Soane's Museum reflects Soane's architectural ingenuity, imagination, innovation and artistic taste. Soane’s collections – Greco-Roman marbles, architectural fragments, plaster casts, paintings, sculptures, and priceless furniture – are still arranged today as they were at the time of his death in 1837, as decreed ...
In 2022-23 the Museum received a grant of £101,855 (2021-22: £99,606) in support of the Director’s post, which was applied to funding salary and associated costs. Pension Entitlements of the Director: Officials. Accrued pension at pension age as at 31/3/23 and related lump sum.
Additionally, the Soane has commissioned a contemporary equivalent of the illuminated architecture explored in the exhibition. The light artist Nayan Kulkarni has developed a new work to illuminate the façade of the Museum on Lincoln’s Inn Fields, reinforcing how light was a central element of design for Sir John Soane.
The Picture Room contains some of Sir John Soane’s most treasured works of art, including masterpieces by Hogarth, Canaletto, Turner and Piranesi. Soane used moving ‘picture planes’ to allow him to hang a small 13-by-12-foot room with 118 paintings, a collection large enough for a room three times its size. You can also learn about the ...
In this section, discover the highlights of Sir John Soane’s world-class collection. 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 ...
