Monday 7 September 2009

The Sir John Soane's Museum






The museum was originally a house in which Soane, an architect lived in. He also used it as a setting for his antiques and his works of art. One of his two sons kept the place alive by converting it into a museum after his death in 1837.

I can only describe this place as an 'Aladdin's cave.' It stands modestly amongst a row of terraced houses on a side street in Holborn, London. As you make your way round the narrow corridors, ducking through doors, so as not to bash your head, and the endless stairways, there is not a single space which hasn't been filled with one of Soanes' collections. It is a place in which can can lose yourself in and every time you return, there will always be something you hadn't seen before, creating a new experience for each visit.

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