The architect John Soane turned his own home on Lincoln’s Inn Fields into a museum and decreed that everything should stay exactly as he left it. Antique fragments, plaster casts and paintings fill the walls up to the ceiling, while skylights and mirrors make the cramped rooms feel larger. In the Picture Room, the walls fold open to reveal Hogarth’s series ‘A Rake’s Progress’. Large bags are left at the entrance, and you move slowly: the house can only take a few visitors at a time.
Sir John Soane's Museum is a house museum, located next to Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn, London, which was formerly the home of neo-classical architect John Soane. It holds many drawings and architectural models of Soane's projects and a large collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and antiquities that he acquired over many years. The museum was established during Soane's lifetime by a private act of Parliament, Sir John Soane's Museum Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 4 Pr.), which took effect on his death in 1837. Soane engaged in this lengthy parliamentary campaign in order to disinherit his son, whom he disliked intensely. The act stipulated that on Soane's death, his house and collections would pass into the care of a board of trustees acting on behalf of the nation, and that they would be preserved as nearly as possible exactly in the state they were at his death. The museum's trustees remained completely independent, relying only on Soane's original endowment, until 1947.
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The Garden CinemaSmall independent cinema in Covent Garden with classics, arthouse and film seasons.
Hunterian MuseumAnatomical collection of the surgeon John Hunter on Lincoln's Inn Fields, not for the faint-hearted.
