Exhibition
Swedenborg’s Lusthus: On Memory And Place
29 Jan 2024 – 5 Apr 2024
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- Closed
- Sunday
- Closed
Free admission
Address
- 20-21 Bloomsbury Way
- London
- WC1A 2TH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Nearest underground stations: Tottenham Court Road and Holborn
A major new exhibition about Swedenborg's enigmatic eighteenth-century lusthus, and the relationship between place and thought.
About
Part reliquary, part sanctum and part tourist attraction, Emanuel Swedenborg’s lusthus, or summerhouse, has long been an object of pilgrimage and curiosity. Built as a wooden retreat at the far end of his garden in Stockholm in 1747 and serving as a focal point for his writing and otherworldly conversations, it has come to stand as an emblem of his visionary legacy for over 250 years.
The exhibition showcases new works by Daniel Birnbaum, Anonymous Bosch, John Christie, Mark Riley, Iain Sinclair, Bridget Smith, Ben Wickey and others, in conjunction with previously unseen artefacts from the collection at Swedenborg House and items on loan from the Center for Swedenborgian Studies in the US.
