Dennis Severs' House, Art museum in Spitalfields, London, England
The Dennis Severs' House contains ten detailed rooms across four floors, each presenting early Georgian and Victorian domestic settings with period furnishings and decorations.
Built in 1724, this Grade II listed building underwent extensive renovations in 1979 when American artist Dennis Severs transformed it into a museum of Huguenot history.
The museum illustrates the life of a fictional Huguenot silk weaver family through careful arrangements of objects, sounds, and scents within each historical room.
The museum operates during specific time slots on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 5 PM to 9 PM, and Sundays from noon to 3 PM.
Visitors walk through the house in complete silence, encountering rooms that appear as if their inhabitants have just stepped away moments before.
Location: London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Inception: 1724
Address: 18 Folgate Street, London E1 6BX E1 6BX
Opening Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 17:00-21:00; Sunday 12:00-15:00
Phone: +442072474013
Website: http://dennissevershouse.co.uk
GPS coordinates: 51.52094,-0.07779
Latest update: May 27, 2025 09:50
London offers far more than Tower Bridge and Buckingham Palace. Away from the main attractions, numerous sites remain unfamiliar even to many locals. This selection includes the ruins of St Dunstan-in-the-East, where a medieval church has been transformed into a public garden, the Sir John Soane's Museum with its antiquities and architectural fragments, and Dennis Severs' House, a Georgian townhouse preserved as a lived-in time capsule. The collection features gardens such as Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park and Kyoto Garden in Holland Park, historic buildings like the 14th-century Charterhouse and St Bartholomew the Great, London's oldest parish church. It also covers unusual museums including the Old Operating Theatre, Europe's oldest surviving surgical theater, and industrial monuments like Crossness Pumping Station with its Victorian steam engines. Leadenhall Market displays Victorian architecture in the financial district, while God's Own Junkyard in Walthamstow exhibits thousands of neon signs. Other sites range from the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu temple in Neasden to Wilton's Music Hall, London's oldest music hall, and the Victorian dinosaur sculptures at Crystal Palace Park. Little Venice presents canals lined with houseboats, the Freud Museum preserves the psychoanalyst's London home, and Keats House commemorates the Romantic poet. These locations provide insights into history, architecture, and culture beyond the standard tourist circuit.
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