Museum of the architect sir John Soane himself is in the house in which he lived and worked in this outstanding master of Neoclassicism. He is worthy of a personal Museum, if only because he built a unique building of the Bank of England.

The son of a Mason Soun, who was born in 1753, made a brilliant career: he became a Professor of architecture at the Royal Academy, the architect of the Bank of England. From 1792 he gradually bought and rebuilt standing nearby homes in Lincoln-Inn-fields. Here he lived and worked, kept their ever-growing collection of antiquities. Architectural practice masters flourished, and in his collection appeared rarities worthy of the British Museum, for example, the alabaster sarcophagus of Pharaoh SETI I. the Emergence in the collection so valuable exhibit was devoted to a special three-day reception in the house of Soun (more precisely, in the basement, where he was placed the sarcophagus, lit by hundreds of lamps and chandeliers). The reception was visited by 890 people, including Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, interior Minister Robert peel, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (President of the Society of arts).

Museum Soun was created under painful circumstances. In 1815, the son of an architect in debt and tried to extort money from his father. The debt has been paid by the wife of Sone ELISA. Soon, his son published in the Sunday paper anonymous article on low level architecture in England from the attacks on his own father. For Eliza it was a fatal blow, she died. Soun, a dearly loved wife, was furious. Between father and son took the gap, the head of the family decided to bequeath his legacy to the nation. The Parliament passed a special act that made this possible. Soun Jr. tried to challenge the act in court, but lost.

John Sone died in 1837, his house and collection become public domain. It exhibits a completely unique items: architectural fragments of the old Westminster Palace burned down in 1834, Chinese and Peruvian pottery, Indian furniture, decorated in ivory. Art gallery includes paintings by Canaletto, Hogarth, Turner, Watteau, Reynolds, fifteen drawings by Piranesi. An extremely valuable part of the collection are thirty thousand architectural drawings, collected by Soane himself, and more than two hundred and fifty models of various buildings.

Of considerable interest are the buildings of the Museum, the interiors of which indelible imprint imposed the identity of the Sone. Library / dining room is decorated in the style of Etruscan tomb – Sone in his youth he studied in Rome ancient architecture. In the picturesque gallery he used the ingenious principle of the light applied to them in the building of the Bank of England. In the Breakfast room there is a convex mirror, familiar in the modern public buildings.