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	Soane Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Soane Museum is a museum of architecture, and was formerly the house and studio of Sir John Soane.
		The museum was established during Soane's own lifetime by a private Act of Parliament in 1833, which took effect on his death in 1837.
		The museum was initially housed in No.13, and expanded into the rear of No.12 later in the 19th century, and into the front of No.12 in the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soane_Museum (839 words)

	John Soane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As his practice prospered, Soane was able to collect objects worthy of the British Museum, including the sarcophagus of Seti I, Roman bronzes from Pompeii, several Canaletto's and a collection of paintings by Hogarth.
		Among Soane's most notable works are the dining rooms of both numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street for the Prime Minister and Chancellor of Britain, the Dulwich Picture Gallery which is the archetype for most modern art galleries, and his country home at Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing.
		Soane died in London in 1837 and is buried in a vault of his own design in the churchyard of Old St. Pancras Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Soane (514 words)

	Encyclopedia: Soane Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Museum is located in the Holborn district of central London overlooking the square of Lincoln's Inn Fields.
		The Soane Museum is now widely regarded as a national centre for the study of neo-classical architecture.
		Soane's collections included a large number of architectural drawings, ranging from John Smythson to most of Robert Adam's original drawings.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Soane-Museum (585 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Travel \| Beyond the British Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Soane's presence is everywhere -- the house is virtually untouched since his death -- and the pride he took in his collection is palpable.
		Soane was overjoyed with the acquisition and celebrated its arrival with a three-day reception, lighting the crypt and sarcophagus with hundreds of oil-lamps.
		Soane died in 1837, having established the house and his collection as a museum four years before his death.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/460/tr1.htm (959 words)

	Victorian London - Entertainment and Recreation - Museums, Public Buildings and Galleries - Soane Museum
		The Soane Museum, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, is a splendid suite of rooms, ornamented with paintings by Canaletti and Hogarth, and many eminent modern masters, and with designs by J. Soane himself.
		SOANE MUSEUM, (Sir John Soane's Museum), 13, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, north side formed and founded in his own house by Sir John Soane, son of a bricklayer at Reading, and architect of the Bank of England, (d.
		In the Dining-room is a portrait of Soane, by Sir T. Lawrence and in the Gallery under the dome, a bust of him by Sir F. Chantrey.
	www.victorianlondon.org /entertainment/soanemuseum.htm (1040 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts galleries \| Sir John Soane museum
		Sir John Soane was born the son of a bricklayer but rose to win the commission of architect to the Bank of England and became professor of architecture at the Royal Academy.
		Soane filled the study with antique marble fragments from Rome and arranged them so as to draw the viewer's eye to the beauty of their form and the variety of ornamentation.
		Soane was educated in the Renaissance and established the museum in the belief that the study of classical principles of design should be the foundation of a student's education.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/gallery/0,8542,1039541,00.html (322 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Soane's will stipulated that the contents of the house be kept as nearly as possible as they were at his death, a wish that has been fulfilled.
		Soane was friendly with the great painter J.M.W. Turner, and among the museum's treasures are three paintings by the English master of fog and mist.
		Soane was a thrifty sort, and the main staircase in Pitshanger Manor is secondhand.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/travel/london_england4.htm (2094 words)

	Sir John Soane's Museum Exhibitions
		Soane was one of the first architects to study at the Royal Academy and in 1776 he won its Gold Medal with his design for a 'Bridge of Magnificence' across the Thames, a model of which featured in the Living Bridges exhibition.
		Soane is buried in St Pancras Gardens, behind the station, under a domed monument which inspired the design of the K2 telephone box in the 1920s, a prototype of which is in the courtyard of the Royal Academy.
		Soane's views of the Bank of England in ruins (1833) reflect the same doubts, the cracks opening in the self-confidence of 19th century Britain.
	www.soane.org /archive.html (10274 words)

	Sir John Soane's Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Soane was born in 1753, the son of a bricklayer, and died after a long and distinguished career, in 1837.
		By 1827, when John Britton published the first description of the Museum, Soane's collection was being referred to as an 'Academy of Architecture'.
		In 1833 Soane negotiated an Act of Parliament to settle and preserve the house and collection for the benefit of 'amateurs and students' in architecture, painting and sculpture.
	www.travellondon.com /templates/museums/sln.html (142 words)

	Sir John Soane's Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The house of Sir John Soane (1753-1837), one of England's greatest architects, is a magical showcase of architectural brilliance, invaluable collections and an eccentric mind.
		In 1833, by means of an Act of Parliament, Sir John Soane preserved the Museum which occupied No. 13 and the rear area of No. 14, stipulating that it be left "as nearly as possible in the state in which I shall leave it".
		"Soane loved the drama of architecture," Will explained as we entered the combined dining room and library (not having a dividing wall was almost unheard of during Soane's lifetime).
	www.mywestend.co.uk /westend/arts-museums-soane.htm (814 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Sir John Soane Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, UK
		John Soane was born to an artisan bricklayer in 1753 and by the end of his life, this youngest son had risen from these apparently humble beginnings to become the John Paul Getty of his time: one of the finest, wealthiest, and most famous collectors that Britain has ever known.
		Soane was in such a position of power by this point, with good friends in the government, that he was able leave the house and all its effects by an Act of Parliament.
		These days the museum is frequented by the sorts of tourists and locals who perhaps don't fancy the trek through the labyrinthine corridors of the British Museum, but instead would like see a genuine period house, without travelling into the deepest countryside to do so.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/getwriting/A421372 (2065 words)

	Charles Plante Fine Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Chantrey and Soane were good friends, humbly born they achieved fortune as well as a knighthood and devoted their lives to the practice of their respective arts.
		In the museum there are related drawings for the ante-room as well as a lithograph by Soane's pupil, Charles James Richardson (1809-1871), giving the plan as well as a perspective view.
		It is characteristic of Soane that, even at the age of 78, he made several alternatives to this design but refused to allow any later considerations to stand in the way of introducing improvements to his initial concept.
	www.watercolours-drawings.com /38.htm (500 words)

	Britannia.com: Hidden London by Jan Collie
		The Soane Museum is one of the most remarkable and densely-packed exhibitions of antiques and curios to be found anywhere in London.
		Paintings, gems, bronzes, manuscripts and marbles litter the rooms, halls and stairways of this lovely 18th century town house, which is tucked away in a quiet square between High Holborn and Fleet Street.
		Once the home of Sir John Soane, who designed the Bank of England, 13, Lincoln's Inn Fields is a monument to one man's obsession with art and architecture.
	www.britannia.com /hiddenlondon/soanemuseum.html (315 words)

	Inland Architect Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		With its split-level flooring and intriguing use of mirrors, the Sir John Soane Museum, which was the original home of the architect, is a must-see for anyone with a serious interest in architecture.
		In 1833, Soane negotiated an Act of Parliament to preserve the house and his collection to benefit students of architecture, an idea he had come up with in 1806 when he was appointed as professor of architecture at the Royal Academy.
		In the Cell and the Monk’s Parlour, where Soane would bring his guests to tea in the early evening, a suite of rooms were created for the monk Padre Giovanni—an invention of Soane to satirize the fashionable tendency toward the Gothic.
	www.inlandarchitectmag.com /f_sirjohn.html (1271 words)

	Installment
		This museum is housed in Soane's house and is full of any number of random things.
		Soane was a celebrated architect and there are many plans and models for London buildings around.
		The Museum of London is located next to the Barbican, a newly chic housing and arts complex (people didn't like it for a long time because it's all concrete and is a bit like trying to navigate UF's Turlington for the first time).
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/lhager/other/2004travelogue/installment12.html (633 words)

	Salon Wanderlust \| There'll always be a London
		Soane is long gone, but the house (actually three adjoining houses that he ingeniously remodeled and strung together to accommodate his ever-expanding collection) is now -- as it has been for 160-some years -- the eclectic Sir John Soane's Museum, and it is still chock-full of fascinating, often bizarre stuff.
		Working with narrow hallways and mostly small rooms, Soane employed mirrors (many of them round and convex), skylights, mezzanines, glass, brick floors, curling staircases, alcoves, walls made of giant doors and various other architectural sleights of hand to give the crowded quarters a feeling of spaciousness and grand scale that is entirely illusory.
		Soane's vast cabinet of curiosities, which you enter through a heavy green door (admission is free; you ring a buzzer to be let in, then sign your name in a book while a man in a mold-colored lab coat supervises), is packed with more than 3,000 objects.
	archive.salon.com /wlust/pm/1998/05/13post.html (786 words)

	Sir John Soane - Great Buildings Online
		Soane Museum, at London, England, 1812 to 1834.
		John Soane was born in Goring-on-Thames in 1753.
		Soane was knighted in 1832 and in 1833 he obtained an Act of Parliament through which his house became a national architecture museum.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Sir_John_Soane.html (298 words)

	Art Fund : Museum Visit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wherever you go, John Soane is at your shoulder, nudging you to notice, in his own words, ‘a succession of those fanciful effects which constitute the poetry of architecture’, looking down on you with the quizzical smile caught by Sir Thomas Lawrence in his 1828 portrait hanging over the fireplace in the Dining Room.
		John Soane, (1753—1837), was the youngest son of a Berkshire builder and bricklayer.
		Soane in his Fifth Lecture to the Royal Academy in 1819, said: ‘Every building, great or small, simple or elegant, must, like the picture, speak intelligibly to the beholder.
	www.artfund.org /main_site/artfundmags_archive.asp?id=520 (1495 words)

	The Sir John Soane's Museum Web Page
		Soane designed this house to live in, but also as a setting for his antiquities and his works of art.
		Having been deeply disappointed by the conduct of his two sons, one of whom survived him, he determined to establish the house as a museum to which 'amateurs and students' should have access.
		The Hogarth paintings are currently on display in a temporary gallery in the basement of the Museum.
	www.soane.org (640 words)

	Piercefield House, Chepstow, Wales. A house by Sir John Soane.
		Piercefield House resulted from a 1785 commission by George Smith to remodel his existing house in the neo-classical style.
		The task was given to a young architect, famous today as the benefactor of the London institution which bears his name - the Sir John Soane Museum.
		Soane was born in Reading in 1753 of "humble parentage".
	www.data-wales.co.uk /soane.htm (454 words)

	London
		In the Museums exhibit on weights and measures there are several Ancient Egyptian weights, as well as examples from cultures such as Ancient Roman and Chinese measuring jugs and weights.
		The museum is housed in Sir John's house, with everything as far as possible exactly as he left it.
		For the Egyptologist the museum is a must see when visiting London, as it houses the sarcophagus of Seti I. This was removed from Seti's tomb by Belzoni and offered to the British Museum.
	www.akhet.co.uk /muslond.htm (261 words)

	Sir John Soane's Museum, London WC2: tourist information from TourUK
		This museum was left to the nation in by Sir John Soane in 1837, on the condition that nothing should be changed.
		Sir John Soane, who was one of Britain's leading 19th century architects, developed a neo-Classical style of his own and designed the Bank of England.
		Soane was the son of a bricklayer but made a marriage to the niece of a wealthy builder whose fortune he inherited.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_museums/johnsoanes_house1.htm (361 words)

	Sunset: Architect's museum in London - Sir John Soane's Museum
		Sir John Soane's Museum is really the middle house of three built by Soane, and it connects with buildings extending behind the other two.
		According to one architectural historian, Soane was more adventurous in his use of structure and lighting and more flexible in his handling of proportion than any other European architect of his day.
		The museum is in the middle of the block, facing south to the square.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1216/is_v177/ai_4501700 (539 words)

	Sir John Soane (1753-1857) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		John Soane, the son of a bricklayer, was born near Reading, and educated there before being trained as an architect under George Dance the Younger.
		Soane's own house, designed by him, which he left to the nation as the John Soane Museum, contains many models and drawings of his works, as well as art of all kinds in what I count as one of the best smaller museums in London.
		Among other existing public buildings in London by Soane are the Dulwich Picture Gallery south of the Thames, and Pitshanger Manor in Ealing.
	www.speel.demon.co.uk /arch/soane.htm (208 words)

	Architecture museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Art museums and galleries in the UK, Architecture museums, London attractions, Historic houses in London
		The Soane Museum is a museum of architecture, and was formerly the house and studio of John Soane.
		The Museum is located in the Holborn district of central London overlooking the square of Lincolns Inn.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Architecture-museums (472 words)

	Art in America: "Retrace Your Steps: Remember Tomorrow" at the Soane Museum - various artists; installation art; ...
		It's not too difficult to see why--once inside this museum, the visitor is pleasurably enveloped by an archaic labyrinth with no end of secret passageways packed with Egyptian and Renaissance fragments collected by the renowned British architect Sir John Soane (1753-1837).
		Cerith Wyn Evans's contribution (modifying the tone of the ring of the museums' doorbell) came off slightly better, as did Richard Hamilton's poster that advertised the exhibition by mimicking the Soane Museum's house design style.
		The notion of exhibiting a museum within another museum is intriguing, but these were only token efforts in that direction.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_6_88/ai_62685260 (530 words)

	Sir John Soane's Museum \| Museum/Attraction Review \| London \| Frommers.com
		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 be likely to hold).
		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.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/london/A24196.html (249 words)

	John Soane Museum London (Holborn)
		Soane collected a remarkable range of art and archaeological artifacts from Europe, Egypt and beyond and left them all for us to marvel at.
		John Soane apparently bequeathed his house to future generations and we owe it to him to explore this magical space.
		An astonishing museum that surprisingly few people know of, so impress your friends and take them there soon.
	www.urbanpath.com /london/museums/john-soane-museum.htm (393 words)

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