Step inside Sir John Soane museum’s hidden “drawing room”

A room inside the Sir John Soane museum that’s never been open to the public is now open twice a week, and it’s quite a remarkable space, even for this already remarkable museum.
It’s also a room that thousands of people have walked under without even realising, but until recent conservation and cleaning work, wasn’t possible for the public to visit. As a room, superficially it looks not that dissimilar to the rest of the house, being packed full of plaster casts acquired