Sir John Soane's Museum
#158🏛️ History & CivilizationLondon, United Kingdom

Sir John Soane's Museum

An architect's wonder cabinet on Lincoln's Inn Fields

About the museum

The architect Sir John Soane left his idiosyncratic London house, packed with antiquities, paintings and Hogarths, to the nation as a museum on the condition nothing be moved.

Must-see highlights

  • ◆Sarcophagus of Seti I
  • ◆Hogarth's Rake's Progress
  • ◆Picture Room walls
  • ◆Soane's domed Breakfast Room
  • ◆Free entry

Recognition

🏆 Free entry🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice

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