Dennis Severs' House at Christmas

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Does anyoe know when the tickets go on sale ?

I've tried a search on Google but only got a Time Out London article .

TIA

I went last summer and thought it was massively disappointing. It didn’t feel like a real residence, more like a display of someone’s collection of antique pottery.

I felt the same about the Burrell Collection in Glasgow I was dragged along there in 1988 by my DParents ( "it;s just a load of stuff some bloke brought home from his travels" , I protested )

The house at Christmas will (hopefully) be like spying on someone naice decorations .
My DD is an adult so we'd combine it with lumch and a potter down Oxford Street .

Have you been before? It honestly felt really scabby and dirty to me, and not in any way ‘naice’. The website gave the impression that it was a really immersive experience, like going back in time to someone’s real life, but to me it just felt underwhelming, half-arsed, and dirty/smelly - but not in a lived-in way, more like a junk shop. I was SO disappointed, I thought it would be next level National Trust, but I thought it was a rip off.

I haven't been before .no. but I'd been drawn in by the previous years photos ,,,but I can see what you mean, it's probably got the air of a boarded up house about it .
I was wondering if the dead goose on the table was real

I absolutely love Denis Severs' house and don't really recognise the descriptions above (everyone's entitled to their opinion though!)

However it's not naice - it tells the story of a family's decline over decades, starting off in the kitchen and working up through the house, so by the time you're at the top it's freezing and dirty, mattress on the floor etc. Even in the prosperous years the conceit is that you've just interrupted the household so it's set out as if people lived there, a bit ramshackled with an old bonnet left on a chair etc etc, not like an 18th C show home. It's supposed to be an immersive historical experience of actual life so that comes with a bit of dirt and mess.

I really love it but if what you're looking for is "ye olde jolly Christmas" it's not that.

My main problem with it was that it DIDN’T feel like a historical family home. It just felt like a load of random pottery on display in a dirty room. Not helped by a glance behind a screen in a bedroom to find a 90s computer set up. The whole thing just felt undercooked.

Is it if still the no talking rule when you look around? That in combination with the Christmas quality street and crotchless bloomers on the washing line in the hall guarantee a giggle!!!

A lovely museum to visit at Christmas, not far from Dennis Severs is the old Geffrye Museum. I think it's been rebranded now as The Museum of the Home. They have a room for each era, decorated in the style of the era for Christmas. You walk in through a Tudor room, heavy with scents of cloves and nutmeg, with holly on the mantelpiece. By 1970s there are artificial trees with glittery ornaments and multicoloured flashing lights. It's very festive.