Sir John Soane's Museum
Sir John Soane's Museum is the former home of neo-classical architect Sir John Soane (1753-1837), beside Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. An 1833 Act of Parliament preserved the house and its contents for the nation after Soane's death, largely as he left them. It holds his collections of architectural drawings and models, paintings by Canaletto, Hogarth and Turner, and antiquities including the sarcophagus of Seti I.
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Now on view
4 exhibitions
A Golden Age of Architecture: Rare Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Drawings by Thorpe and the Smythsons
This online exhibition presents findings from two major cataloguing projects: one on the ‘Book of Architecture of John Thorpe’ in Sir John Soane’s Museum, a project undertaken by Manolo Guerci, Reader at the School of…
Queer Revelations
This online exhibition showcases the voices of Museum staff and uncovers some of the queer histories hiding in plain view at Sir John Soane’s Museum. In February 2024, Museum staff were invited to contribute to an…
Reveries on Ruin Value and the Future of (a) Museum(s)
This is a zine, very loosely modelled on pamphlets authored by Sir John Soane. It collects the research and collaborations that Simon Faride, who added an ‘e’ to his surname just as Soane did, undertook while a Jerwood…
Michael Landy: Future Ruins
This autumn, a selection of Michael Landy’s (b.1963) drawings of iconic buildings in ruins will be brought together for the first time in the Museum where the artist was first inspired to begin his meticulous series.…
Opening soon
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The Architecture Drawing Prize 2026
Winners of the 9th edition of The Architecture Drawing Prize – a partnership between Make Architects, World Architecture Festival and Sir John Soane’s Museum – will be announced in Autumn 2026, and in the new year a…
Sam Belinfante: All that I have to say is…
Sam Belinfante’s new film All that I have to say is . . . explores how changing light can affect our perception of space and create a sense of drama. Stemming from his time as the first Artist in Residence at Sir John…
Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq: Drawing in the Dark
This Spring, Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq will present a new series of work in the Museum’s Foyle Space, a result of his time as Jerwood Artist in Residence at Sir John Soane’s Museum in 2025. Born in Falkirk, Scotland,…
Zaha Hadid: Visionary Museum Designs
This major exhibition will explore the work of Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid (1950–2016). Hadid began her own practice in London in 1980, and during her lifetime she was widely regarded as a major figure in…
Sir John Soane: The Poetry of Architecture
In 2027, a landmark collaboration between Sir John Soane’s Museum and Yale School of Architecture will bring Sir John Soane: The Poetry of Architecture to the United States - the first monographic exhibition devoted to…