Sir John Soane's House

        Yesterday we visited an interesting place which is regarded as the best house-museum in the world. Refer to the name, it clearly demonstrates that this museum is owned by an absolutely wealthy person, and he is Sir John Soane.
       When we tried to find this house(I didn't think it was a museum at that time), I had a feeling that this collection must have been accumulated in an aim of showing polities. I t locates in central London and has an open view of a fancy park. The adjacent houses look so nice as if they were once belonged to those rich dukes. So it's obviously that Sir John Soane was one of the tops. As an architecture, especially a successful architecture, he could be able to gain a lots of money indeed. It seems like a general rule that rich people always intend to collect things that are extremely precious or expensive. This rule works on Sir John Soane as well.
    As soon as I walked into his house, I felt as I was standing in a small british museum. In this narrow space, thousands of decorated pieces of architechture  were hang on the walls. Sculptures and pictures are arranged closely to each other in a nice order. Its hard to believe that all these wonderful antiques are consisted in a personal collection. How much did he spent to get all of these and how much did he pay to take care of this in a house, in his own home? Well, definitely, it's good to be rich, isn't it?
     His collection is attractive not only because of these objects but also of his design and arrangement. As a architecture, it's his interest and responsibility to rerange the structure of the houseand make it possible to load as many collections as it can. I was astonished by two design of his house. First one was the double height area for desplaying and another one wasthe movable walls which allows visitors to see through the courtyard once it's open. From these carefully organizations, varieties of precious antiques, huge amount of books, detailed sketches ,etc. it's clear to see how much energy did he put into his collection.
    But back to the argument that we have at the beginning, what are these for. Were they really collected to teach the students about architecture? I mean, I didn't feel like I had learned much acadamiclly after observation. I don't know whether he would give students some talks in his display  room or just let them huang around in his house, astonishing by his wonderful collections as I did.
    Whatever he ment to do, he made an good example of personal collection remained a faninating house with tresures to later generations along with his masterpieces of architecture.