#FancifulFigures is now open, and on display until 9 June! Pop by the Museum to explore, or discover our exciting programme of exhibition events on our website, including guided tours and library visits: bit.ly/3TrbEpL 🎟️📚

Happy 53rd birthday Bangladesh 🇧🇩

Explore the former residence of Sir John Soane, one of the country’s greatest architects. The @soanemuseum has been kept as it was at the time of his death in 1837, and is full of priceless works of art, antiquities, sculptures and so much more. #LetsDoLondon #VisitLondon

Good morning, London! 👋 We’re open throughout the Easter weekend, including today and Monday, so do pop in and ask our venerable sun god Apollo why the weather’s always a bit patchy on bank holidays!🌦️

Come visit us! Open all Easter Bank Holiday weekend - an immersive house museum with something for everyone

Here’s the Soane from an angle you’ve never seen before! 🔍 After our neighbourhood crows got a direct hit on a panel of stained glass, abseiling experts were needed to drop off the back of the Museum, assess the damage and fit a custom-made replacement. Sorted! 👏

Hello IKEA UK how do I speak to someone about being overcharged in the Croydon branch? I’ve tried email feedback and Instagram message so far. No reply. Keen to get a refund. Many thanks!

Humans – and dogs, hats and umbrellas – have often featured in architectural drawings. You may wonder why, writes William Aslet, but the best architecture has always been about the people Sir John Soane's Museum 🏛️🖼️

Let us introduce you to an easily-missed marvel of the Soane! 🐊🏹 This sculpture of the Hindu Deities Kamadeva and Rati atop a crocodile offers so many stories – from the fascinations of the Georgian art world, to the intersection of imagery across ancient cultures. 🏛️🖼️

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Opening soon, a new exhibition – Lina Iris Viktor: Mythic Time / Tens of Thousands of Rememberings! 🎨 Lina’s sculpture, painting, gilding and photography mirrors Soane’s own eclecticism, combining influences from ancient world cultures. 📅 10 July bit.ly/4cDGbXW 🔍

Witness testimony, video and photographic analysis confirm police in Bangladesh used unlawful force against protesters. Read more👇 amn.st/6013iYaex

Just in: analysis of the Bangladesh student protests from SOAS Development Studies student Rafid Hossain, a graduate of University of Dhaka 🇧🇩 #bangladeshstudentprotests SOAS Press Office SOAS University of London Netra News Youth Policy Forum - YPF soas.ac.uk/about/blog/202…

⁦Naomi Hossain⁩ breaking it down on the unfolding crisis in Bangladesh

Horrendous

🚨🚨Bangladesh: Media reports state that security forces have been raiding neighbourhoods and conducting mass arrests, targeting students and opposition activists. Whereabouts of some of those arrested are unknown. Several student leaders have been arrested from the hospital

“I have been crippled. I have become a burden to my family!” Zakir Shikder, 27, had to have his leg amputated after being shot during the Bangladesh protests. Quota reform movement: 78pc of killed persons have lethal bullet wounds en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/wzj…

this is possibly the best art you’ll see today. streets of bangladesh by students.

Bangladeshi journalists faced so much violence and so many threats - many were killed- during the protest movement. And yet they persisted, sometimes using clever ways of getting the message out. Hats off to the brave journalists of Bangladesh! (You know who you are)

Have you seen Lina Iris Viktor’s spectacular works in the Museum’s Crypt? 😍 These new presences, reflections on Soane’s use of darkness in this atmospheric space as a meditation on mortality, are part of our #MythicTime exhibition, on until January. ✨