Your Visit
Opening Times
Sir John Soane’s Museum is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10-5pm. Admission is free. Please note that last entry to the Museum is at 4:30pm. We are closed every Sunday, Monday and bank holiday. We will therefore close to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee holiday on Tuesday 5th June. There will be no evening candle-lit opening in June. The quietest time to visit is when we open at 10am.
Museum Tour
We offer one Museum tour a week, each Saturday at 11.00am. We do not take bookings for the tour or for Saturday visits. Tour tickets go on sale from 10.30am each Saturday and cost £10. The tour lasts around an hour.
Monthly Evening Candlelit Opening
We hold a special candlelit opening on the first Tuesday evening of each month, 6-9pm. Please Note - There will be no evening opening in June 2012, owing to the Bank Holiday for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. This event cannot be booked and tickets are issued on a first come first served basis. Long queues can sometimes form well before the Museum opens at 6 and as this event is extremely popular, many more people arrive than we can possibly get in to the house. We limit the number of people allowed in to the Museum during the course of the evening to 200. From 5:30pm, we issue tickets to the first 200 people in the queue. Tickets are strictly one per person, and cannot be saved for people joining you later.
For further information click here.
Group Visits
All groups must book in advance. To read more about Group Bookings please click here.
Temporary Room Closures
The main house and Museum collection in No. 13 will remain open as usual throughout the restoration project.
The first stage in the Opening up the Soane project, which will see the Museum restored to its appearance at the time of Sir John Soane’s death in 1837, has now begun. The Picture Room was rehung in February 2011 with Canaletto’s magnificent Riva degli Schiavoni, looking West returning to its original position as the centrepiece of the Picture Room display. Sir John Soane’s significant collection of paintings are now hung as he intended them to be seen by the public.
No. 12 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, including the Breakfast Room and Soane Gallery, are now closed for restoration. No.12 will reopen in summer 2012 on the completion of the first phase of Opening up the Soane. More information, including how you can help with this exciting project, can be found here.
Location
Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3BP. From Holborn tube take the left exit onto Kingsway. Take your 3rd left into Remnant Street which brings you into Lincolns Inn Fields. The Museum is nearly half way along the north side of the Fields. The main information line for the Museum is +44 (0) 20 7405 2107.
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