Sir John Soane's Museum
An architect's obsessive Georgian home packed with forty-five thousand curiosities and a pharaoh's sarcophagus.
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This guide to Sir John Soane's Museum in London follows Sir John Soane, the era's leading architect, as he spent decades filling his Lincoln's Inn Fields townhouse behind an ordinary Georgian front with tens of thousands of objects. It also follows Giovanni Battista Belzoni, once a circus strongman turned explorer, into the Valley of the Kings, where he uncovered an alabaster sarcophagus that the British Museum turned down. Wander the crowded rooms slowly; half the collection hides behind another piece of it.
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