Architect of the Bank of England Sir John Soane collected, arranged and rearranged an enormous number of objects over his life. After his appointment as Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy in 1806, he began opening his house to students on the days before and after his lectures, so that they could benefit from his hoard of casts, models and books. With no sense of priority, famous works of art, like Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress', are mixed with architectural drawings, roman busts and the alabaster sarcophagus of Seti I. 

Address

13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP

Getting There

Tube: Central and Piccadilly lines (Holborn); Circle and District lines (Temple).

Bus: Lines 1, 59, 68, 91, 168, 171, 188, 243, 521, and X68 (Kingsway); Lines 8, 25, and 242 (High Holborn).