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Exploring the landscape of the Soane

When the Museum reopens on 1 October visitors will once again enter through Sir John Soane’s front door at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

Sir John Soane, Working From Home

As we work at home, perhaps in a home-office but alternatively perched at one end of the dining table or even sitting on the sofa, it’s intriguing to think about the fact that John Soane himself was a home-worker.

Sir John Soane and the red telephone box

The famous red telephone box is one of Britain’s most ubiquitous designs. Though followed by a series of later designs, the red ‘K2’ can still be found across the UK and remains a must-have photo opportunity for tourists. Less well known, however, is the source of this famous design, which the K2’s designer, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, ‘quoted’ from the architectural designs of Sir John Soane.

A Mental Journey: Dutch and British ceilings in the Soane collection

Dr Pieter Vlaardingerbroek circumvents lockdown with a digital journey to London using the Soane’s Collections Online Database.

Tour the Soane the old-fashioned way with a tour from 1979

In 1979, Sir John Summerson, renowned architectural historian

Shakespeare's Flowers

Today, 23 April, is #Shakespeare Day, the date

Watch our series of Opening up the Soane films

Watch the three-part series Opening Up The Soane

Step by Step: Post-it Museum!

Create your very own Museum using post-it notes

The Reynolds Frame back in the Library-Dining Room

After months of painstaking work by our conservation team, Sir Joshua Reynolds' The Snake in the Grass has been reinstalled in the Museum in its conserved frame. We share some pictures of the reveal.

‘Let there be light’: The drawings for Soane’s London Churches

Trainee Drawings Cataloguer Roberto Rossi reviews the London churches drawings as a body of work in themselves.

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