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The History of Sir John Soane's Museum
The architect Sir John Soane's house, museum and library at No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields has been a public museum since the early 19th century. Soane demolished and rebuilt three houses in succession on the north side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, beginning with No. 12 between 1792 and 1794, moving on to No. 13, re-built in two phases in 1808-9 and 1812, and concluding with No. 14, rebuilt in 1823-24.
On his appointment as Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy in 1806 Soane began to arrange the Books, casts and models in order that the students might have the benefit of easy access to them and proposed opening his house for the use of the Royal Academy students the day before and the day after each of his lectures. By 1827, when John Britton published the first description of the Museum, Soane's collection was being referred to as an 'Academy of Architecture'.
In 1833 Soane negotiated an Act of Parliament to settle and preserve the house and collection for the benefit of 'amateurs and students' in architecture, painting and sculpture. On his death in 1837 the Act came into force, vesting the Museum in a board of Trustees who were to continue to uphold Soane's own aims and objectives. A crucial part of their brief was to maintain the fabric of the Museum, keeping it 'as nearly as circumstances will admit in the state' in which it was left at the time of Soane's death in 1837 and to allow free access for students and the public to 'consult, inspect and benefit' from the collections. Since 1837, each successive Curator has sought to preserve and maintain Soane's arrangements as he wished. However, over the years changes have been made and the recent Five-Year Restoration programme sought to restore Soane's arrangements and effects where they had been lost.
Visitor Information:
Location: 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3BP
Sir John Soane's Museum is open free: Tuesday to Saturday, 10am - 5pm (last entry time is 4:30pm).There is a special candlelit opening on the first Tuesday evening of each month, 6pm - 9 pm (last entry for this is 8:30pm). Visitor numbers are generally high on these evenings and there is frequently a queue to enter the Museum.
Closed Sunday, Monday, Bank holidays, Christmas Eve and Good Friday.
The museum is just a short walk from Holborn Tube Station on the Central Line.
Visiting the Museum
Tickets cannot be booked in advance; it is difficult to advise the best time to visit as it is impossible to predict visitor numbers in adavnce.
Group visits
The Museum welcomes visits from groups of all kinds but, in order to allow all our visitors to enjoy the Museum as we would wish, we need to ask for your co-operation in the following ways.
Please contact us in advance to make an appointment. This can be done in writing, by telephone, fax or email. We recommend that you give us at least four weeks notice to enable us the give you the date and the time you request. It is not usually possible for groups to visit on Wednesday, all day, or Thursday mornings as those are the times set aside for groups from primary schools under the museum's programme for Children's Education.
We can accommodate up to 20 people at any one time and any groups over this size should be divided into two or more smaller groups with separate appointments of at least one and a half hours in between. Students, schoolchildren younger than 18 must be well supervised and each group must be accompanied by at least 2 adults, preferably 3.
You may ask your own guide or lecturer to address the group on arrival at the Museum in the Library-Dining Room, but we ask you not to gather in large groups elsewhere in the Museum in order that our other visitors are not inconvenienced.
Unfortunately large bags cannot be accommodated at the Museum - we cannot allow them to be taken around the Museum and space is very limited for storage. Smaller bags may be left with the warder at the Front Door.
Entrance to the Museum is free but the Museum badly needs money and we do very much appreciate donations to our Conservation Fund. In particular,the museum would be grateful for a donation of £50 from each group to cover administrative costs and to assist the Museum by contributing to its limited resources.
Queuing
Visitor numbers at the Museum are currently very high. Owing to the delicate nature of the building and the exposed collections it is important that we limit the number of people in the Museum at any one time. These restrictions sometimes lead to queues forming, particularly on Saturdays. To avoid queuing (waiting times can be up to 1 hour) please make your visit as early as possible (the Museum opens at 10am).
Parking
There are no private parking spaces available for Museum visitors. However, a number of pay-and-display bays and disabled parking bays are located in the square. Parking control extends to Saturdays.
Unfortunately we cannot accomodate prams or pushchairs in the Musuem. They can be left in the porch by the entrance if there is space, and at the owner's risk.
Disabled Access
The Museum has limited disabled access. Wheelchair uses should telephone in advance for advice.
Where to eat locally
The is no café in the Museum but there are many good places to eat close by. There are a number of cafés and restaurants on Kingsway and High Holborn (2 minutes away) and picnics can be eaten in Lincoln's Inn Fields (one of the oldest and largest garden squares in London). Museum staff can give directions and advice about where to eat locally
WCs
There are two WCs in basement of the Museum
The Collections
Sir John Soane's Museum comprises his collections and personal effects, acquired between the 1780s and his death in 1837.
* Egyptian and Classical Antiquities
* Medieval Antiquities
* Renaissance Antiquities
* 17th and 18th-Century Sculpture
* Neo-Classical Sculpture
* Casts
* Oriental Objects
* Timepieces
* Furniture
* Stained Glass
* Paintings
* Picture Frames
* Building Fabric
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