Art, candlelight and Bompas and Parr cocktails

Associated media

Late night Christmas shopping at Sir John Soane’s Museum

Thursday 12 and Thursday 19 December 2013, 5–8p.m.

13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP

Sir John Soane’s Museum will be having two late night events in the lead-up to Christmas, allowing visitors to do some late night Christmas shopping.

The two events will take place on 12 and 19 December from 5–8p.m. and visitors will be able to browse the latest Christmas-themed items in the shop and enjoy a free cocktail from pioneering food scientists Bompas and Parr.

The two events are free to attend and each visitor gets a free cocktail. The museum’s shop will also be offering free gift-wrapping for purchases over £25.

These late evening openings will provide a fun mix of festive merriment, relaxed shopping away from the hustle and bustle of the high-street and truly unique surroundings in which to enjoy a December evening. There will be many gifts on sale, created by leading designers such as Snowden Flood and Carolina Peraca.

Sir John Soane designed Lincoln’s Inn Fields as his home and as a setting for his antiquities and works of art.  He established the house as a museum by Act of Parliament (1833) requiring that his romantic and poetic interiors be kept as they were at the time of his death.

Sir John Soane’s Museum comprises his collections and personal effects, acquired between the 1780s and his death in 1837.  The collections contain many important works of art and antiquities, architectural drawings, historical volumes and historical architectural models as well as important examples of furniture and decorative arts. The Museum is a remarkable survival of a Regency-period architectural house, office and collection

Admission is free:  open Tuesday to Saturday 10a.m.–5p.m. with last entry at 4.30p.m.  Closed every Sunday, Monday and Bank Holiday.