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Erdem Moralioglu Back to top

Erdem Moralioglu

ERDEM is an independent house of bold fashion for women, based in London. Founded in 2005 by designer Erdem Moralioglu, the brand has forged its own path within the industry. Poetic and rigorous, ageless and timeless, powerful and versatile, Erdem’s world is an intriguing interplay of strength and beauty.

In fifteen years, Erdem has established an exuberant language of femininity that transcends fashion to inspire strength and confidence in the women for whom he designs. It is a passionate language that is evocative and eccentric in character, fluently spoken with a beauty that is intense and romantic.

The house of ERDEM is cultured and erudite, underpinned by a belief in the power and skill of craftsmanship. Mind and hand work together to bring imagination to life with precision, artistry and the compelling dexterity of the handmade. Respect for traditional skills is combined with an excitement for innovation, in technique and application.

Erdem is at heart a storyteller. Collections are formed around a narrative championing heroic women at a particular place and a moment in time. Erdem’s fashion is dramatic, atmospheric and expressive in the service of emotion: it is not what she wears, but how she feels that matters.

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Every two weeks we will release a new speaker from this series. draft text here.

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Alice Rawsthorn

Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic and author whose latest book is the critically acclaimed Design as an Attitude. Her weekly design column for The New York Times was syndicated worldwide for over a decade. Alice has spoken at important events including TED and the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Born in Manchester and based in London, Alice is chair of trustees at The Hepworth Wakefield art gallery in Yorkshire and Chisenhale Gallery in London. A founding member of the Writers for Liberty campaign for human rights, Alice was awarded an OBE for services to design and the arts.

Will Gompertz

Will Gompertz is the BBC's first Arts Editor, a senior journalistic role he took up in 2009. As well as regularly reporting on the arts for the main BBC News bulletins, Today Programme and numerous other outlets, Will hosts his own radio show on BBC 5-Live, and has written and presented numerous primetime series for television and radio.

Before joining the BBC, Will spent 7 years as a Director at the Tate Galleries where he was responsible for its BAFTA-winning website and the UK's first Performance Art festival.

In 2012 Will wrote What Are You Looking At?, a critically acclaimed best-selling book on modern art, published by Penguin and subsequently translated into 20 languages. Will's second book, Think Like an Artist, is about creativity and was published by Penguin in 2015. It has been translated into 18 different languages.

Will is a respected and well-known commentator on the Arts, and has written for The Times, The Guardian, and Vanity Fair among many others.

Digital resources Back to top

Explore Soane is our digital platform for exploring the Museum virtually from the comfort of your own home.

After-school club Back to top

Building Explorers is our popular after-school club for children from the local area. We meet on Tuesdays in term time, with members from Years 4 and 5 in our three closest Primary Schools: St Clement Danes, St George the Martyr and Christopher Hatton. The club explores architecture and the built environment across time and place, developing the club members’ knowledge, creativity and design skills. We also take trips to important buildings and places in London to learn more about the architectural make-up of our city.

For more information, email education@soane.org.uk or call 020 7440 4253.

This club is generously funded by the Alan Baxter Foundation.

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Family visiting tips Back to top

We are delighted to welcome families to the Museum. The Soane is different to most museums, so here are a few tips to help you make the most of your visit:

• The Museum has lots of narrow passageways and the collection is on open display. This means that we ask visitors to be careful not to touch anything, including walls and furniture, during their visit.
• The Museum has some uneven flooring, with grilles in some places, through which you can see the floor below.
• We do not have dedicated buggy parking space inside the Museum; there is limited buggy parking available in the outside courtyard at Nos. 12 and 14 Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
• There are baby changing facilities available at the Museum in No. 12 Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
• For information about access at the Museum, please visit our Accessibility page here.
• As Soane intended, there are no labels on objects in the Museum. So we have created a family trail which you can pick-up as you enter, or download from below:

Second Saturday workshops Back to top

On every second Saturday of the month, we offer a free workshop for families in our dedicated learning space at No. 14 Lincoln’s Inn Fields. These run on a drop-in basis, so you can come along at any time and stay for as long as you like. The workshops are different each time and always run by artist educators, who will share their knowledge of the Museum and creative talents with you. Find out about forthcoming events here.

Holiday Events Back to top

Drop-ins

During the school holidays we run a variety of hands-on creative workshops led by our team of artist educators. These take place mostly on Thursdays when we offer a free workshop for all the family in our dedicated learning space in No. 14 Lincoln’s Inn Fields or in Lincolns Inn Fields across the road (weather dependent). Find out about forthcoming events here.

Workshops

During the school holidays on selected Wednesdays, we run more in-depth workshops for children and young people, who spend the day with us working on a specific skill or project. Find out about forthcoming events here.

Please note that we follow the Camden Borough school holiday dates.

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Architecture Clubs Back to top

We run two monthly architecture clubs at the Museum: ‘Young Architects Club’ for 7 to 10 year olds (Years 3 to 6); and the ‘New Architects Club’ for 11 to 14 year olds (Years 7 to 10).

Each month we explore architecture and the built environment through a variety of topics, often shaped by the interests of the group participating. Over the course of the year participants develop their knowledge of history, art and architecture, whilst honing their own design skills. Club sign-up is for the whole year and sessions take place on the first Saturday of the month between October and July (with a break in April). Please check out the links below to book the relevant club for your child’s age group. For more information, please email education@soane.org.uk.

The 'Young Architects Club' and the 'New Architects Club' are kindly supported by Woldon Architects.