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London Map: Sir John Soane's MuseumSir John Soane's Museum Frommer's Highly Recommended

Hours Tues-Sat 10am-5pm; 1st Tues of each month also 6-9pm
Address
13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2
Transportation Tube: Holborn
Phone 020/7405-2107
Web site www.soane.org
Prices Free admission (donations invited). Tours given Sat at 2:30pm; £5 tickets distributed at 2pm, first-come, first-served (group tours by appointment only)

Frommer's Review

This is the former home of Sir John Soane (1753-1837), an architect who rebuilt the Bank of England (although not the present structure). With his multiple levels, fool-the-eye mirrors, flying arches, and domes, Soane was a master of perspective and a genius of interior space (his picture gallery, for example, is filled with three times the number of paintings that a room of similar dimensions would normally hold). One prize of the collection is William Hogarth's satirical series The Rake's Progress, which includes his much-reproduced Orgy and the Election, a satire on mid-18th-century politics. Soane also filled his house with classical sculpture: The sarcophagus of Pharaoh Seti I, found in a burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings, is here.

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