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House museums #66: Sir Isaac Newton

Date
Friday, May 03, 2024 - 10:00 PM
Description
The scientist’s Lincolnshire farmhouse was the scene of the gestation of many of his discoveries

House museums #68: Casa Guidi

Date
Friday, May 17, 2024 - 10:00 PM
Description
The Florentine home of the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning is a memorial to their lives and love story

House museums #69: Dorich House

Date
Friday, May 24, 2024 - 10:00 PM
Description
Dora Gordine’s bronze sculptures, made at her home at Richmond Park, were the first by a woman to be acquired by the Tate Gallery

House museums #70: Strawberry Hill

Date
Friday, May 31, 2024 - 10:00 PM
Description
Horace Walpole’s Gothic Revival house became hugely influential as an English architectural style

House museums #72: Herman Melville

Date
Friday, June 14, 2024 - 10:00 PM
Description
The novelist wrote most of his virtuoso, near-mythical ‘Moby-Dick’ in this Massachusetts farmhouse

House museums #77: Mahatma Gandhi

Date
Saturday, July 20, 2024 - 4:00 AM
Description
The inspirational leader led much of his nonviolent campaign for Indian independence from a spartan room in a Mumbai ‘jewel box’

House museums #79: American poet Robinson Jeffers

Date
Saturday, August 03, 2024 - 10:00 PM
Description
The influential but often overlooked writer celebrated nature from his Californian coastal outpost — and warned of the climate crisis decades before others