Explore the Soane Museum wherever you are with our digital learning resources.

Continue your visit with us out of the Museum and into the classroom or from the comfort of your own home!  Just as Soane was an architectural visionary, we strive to share his work and ideas in new and innovative ways.

Our digital learning resources include the immersive Explore Soane, our digital platform for exploring the Museum virtually from wherever you are, our incredible collaboration with Minecraft Education and Explore 'An Election', a new resource which brings Hogarth's paintings to life for KS3 learners.

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image in a Minecraft‑style shows four blocky characters and a dog standing in front of a Minecraft recreation of the Sir John Soane’s Museum. The characters include two central figures dressed in historical clothing, flanked by two additional characters on either side, each raising an arm in greeting.

Soane's Portals to the Past

Bring history to life with Soane's Portals to the Past - Minecraft Education’s first world dedicated to creative thinking, architecture and design in the AI era, created by Sir John Soane’s Museum.

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A Hogarth painting depicting a crowded 18th‑century tavern scene with people eating, drinking, and arguing around long tables;

Explore 'An Election' - Digital Resource

Explore 'An Election' brings Hogarth’s paintings to life, using AI to animate some of his characters, and to annotate the paintings so that they can be more easily understood by modern audiences, and Key Stage 3 students in particular.

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3D scan of the Soane Museum's Model Room

Introducing Explore Soane

The Soane is now more accessible than ever, thanks to a digital resource which allows anyone from around the world to visit us from the comfort of their own home.

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