We take a break from your regular broadcast of photo-heavy MOBPA goodness (seriously, I hope it’s been enjoyable, because it was one of my own favourite destinations) to bring you another installment of Places I Regrettably Couldn’t Visit, #5: Dennis Severs’ House.
Dennis Severs’ House is, as far as I can gather, like Sir John Soane’s Museum, but less hodgepodge and more thematically defined. It’s basically a house where each of the ten rooms have been painstakingly decked out in items and decor from different time periods between 1724 and 1914, and on top of that, the house itself is a full-on sensory experience – textures, smells, and sounds abound. Visitors are invited to come and experience it all much as they would step through a time capsule, suspending disbelief. You enter each room to find it as if the inhabitants had just departed in a hurry.
It sounds amazing, and I really wanted to go, but they have very odd and clearly defined opening times with different admission prices depending on when you go, and I couldn’t quite wrap my head around it all. So I decided to file it away for another time.
Dennis Severs’ House
18 Folgate Street
Spitalfields
London E1 6BX
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