The house Dennis Severs odd place. Another, perhaps not. This is not a Museum, and it's difficult to determine what it is. Performance? Attraction? The owner of the house was that he did, still life drama. This drama is not for everyone (for example, children are there better not take it, they are unlikely to get into the idea).

It works this way. The guest agreed about the visit in advance (otherwise impossible, the visit should be prepared), suitable to house number 18 on Folgat street. Visitor lets Manager Mick Pedroli, explains the rules: to photograph and can't talk (for disobedience immediately kicked out), the phone should turn off, large bags be left in the hallway. The visitor need to tune in to what he came into the house of the Jervis family, French weavers Huguenots who emigrated to England in 1725 (their descendants lived here until 1919). Starts walking around the house. Here are ten rooms, and they are all furnished differently, because represent different eras and different people. The guest does not explain who lives there, he can guess at different tips itself.

The main impression from this walk – a home somewhere nearby, just walk out of the room. In the fireplace crackling fire, the floor was littered with broken Cup, on the table nedochitannaya letter. Tea is not drunk, fruit and bread is not eaten. The guest aggravated feelings: in the house is cool, half dark (candles), heard the creaking of the floorboards in the hallway and the ringing of Church bells "outside" (the Windows tightly shuttered, so that reality does not interfere), the kitchen smell of browned toast in the bedroom – flowers. Can and should carefully study all subjects – portraits, clothing, furniture. Below obviously wealthy people lived, and the top floor shows the lives of the weavers in the mid-nineteenth century the silk industry in decline, the family is poor. Dirty, the hole in the ceiling, walls with peeling paint, hanging sloppy clothing.

The motto here is "You either see it or not." Normally see. Visitors come from the house of Several absolutely stunned by the experience. What happens during a slow walk through the rooms, it's hard to describe in words, it is necessary to live and experience.

But Jervis family never existed. All these people all of their lives was invented by Dennis Severs – American, who loved the history of England. In 1979 he bought a four-storey Georgian house of brown brick, built about 1724, and decided to turn it into a special world. Items that are so carefully furnished house – also not authentic, Severs bought them for little money at different antique stores.

When Sewers was diagnosed with a fatal disease, he was afraid that no one will want to continue this strange game – keep the house with the invented non-existent residents. Severs died in 1999, but the house still works: Manager Mick continues to receive visitors, a fire in the fireplace is burning, the imagination of visitors enlivens Garvison, incredible performance continues.