About
this website
There’s
a sort of secret community of people who have visited Sir
John Soane’s Museum and fallen for it: for its light,
its exemplary architecture, the disorderly order and serious
jokiness of Soane’s arrangements, or perhaps for it as
museum, a place of musing, or for the concept of London’s
largest time capsule.
A
professor in Nottingham initiated me into Sir John Soane’s
Museum.
“It’s
the best place in London,” he said. “It’s wonderful.”
When I mention the Museum, some people’s faces open up
with comradeship: now we have something to talk about!
You
are invited to write brief pieces about your favourite objects,
discoveries, intuitions and perceptions to include on this website.
Contributions
can be any kind of writing (fiction or otherwise; narrative
or otherwise).
To
contribute, please click here.
To navigate through existing contributions, use the drop-down
menu on the bottom left side of this page.
This
site comprises both public contributions and my own work undertaken
during the course of a writer’s residency in the Museum.
All material on this site is copyright © Bernard Cohen
and iondividual contributors. Please do not use any written
or design element without express permission.
Please
note
Sir John Soane’s Museum is not responsible for any
material on this site, including my fictional guidenotes or
page designs. Please send correspondence about the site (suggestions
or problems) by clicking here.
This
website uses decorative elements and approximated colours from
within the Museum. Several of the elements have been digitally
processed for well-intentioned design reasons, but with the
result that they no longer accurately portray Soane’s originals.
Bernard
Cohen, writer-in-residence, Sir John Soane's Museum
Press
Release: Writer in Residence at Sir John Soane's Museum
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