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Welcome to the Virtual Model Room & Workshop Tour!

We are delighted to share an ongoing project to make the Nathanael Greene Herreshoff Model Room & Workshop Exhibit more accessible to our visitors, both in-person and online. Today we invite you to join us for a (virtual) guided tour of the Halsey C. Herreshoff Collection with HMM founder, naval architect, America's Cup Hall of Fame member, and grandson of Captain Nat, Halsey C. Herreshoff. You can start exploring right away by clicking on the model below, or scroll down for more information about the project and some tips on navigating.

Please note : in-person physical access to the Model Room & Workshop at HMM has been restricted by the Herreshoff family to better preserve and protect this significant collection of artifacts. HMM strives to provide public access periodically throughout the year, but we are limited by what our very small curatorial staff can reasonably accommodate. Please contact us for more information about public access days and / or for information about how to make an appointment to view the collection: [email protected]

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The tour includes almost 70 stops with more than 80 minutes of audio illustrated by more than 700 photos, plans and archival documents. There is no set order for the tour stops, but a "Welcome," "Conclusion," and introduction to each room can be found in the middle of the floor. If you are short on time, the stops highlighted in gold will take you through in about 20 minutes. If you are navigating with a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer, be sure to click the "full screen" button in the lower right hand corner of the model for the best viewing experience.

This guided tour is both an oral history project and an exhibit overview. It does not, however, describe each of the more than 400 models in the Model Room and Workshop individually. If you would like to look up specific models, you can do so through the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné by clicking on individual models in the image on the left-hand side of the screen.

Finally, if you enjoyed this experience, we hope you will show your appreciation by becoming a member or donating to the museum today . Your continued support directly enables these kinds of projects, as well as research into, and preservation of, our collections.

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• This project would not have been possible without the enthusiastic support and participation of Halsey C. Herreshoff; HMM gratefully acknowledges his ongoing preservation and celebration of this very important collection. The virtual tour was funded by the HArT Recovery Grant Program through Rhode Island Commerce. Additionally we are deeply grateful to the MIT Museum for providing access to material from the Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection , and Historic New England and the Library of Congress for their free and open use of historic photos from the golden age of yachting. We are also indebted to the Herreshoff Catalogue Raisonné for its continuing research assistance and support. Select images from other collections are credited where they appear.

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One of Sir John Soane’s final additions to his Museum, the Model Room contains a display of cork and plaster architectural models depicting some of the most famous monuments of the ancient world, as well as Soane’s own building projects.

Located in the Private Apartments, the Model Room is only accessible by joining one of our tours, either a Highlights and Private Apartments Tour , which covers the entire Museum, or one of our volunteer-led Private Apartments Tours.

A Grand Tour in Miniature Back to top

In 1776, the 23-year-old Soane, an architecture student at the Royal Academy, won the Royal Academy gold medal for his design for a Classical Triumphal Bridge. This would prove a pivotal moment in his life, leading to him receiving a bursary to embark on a Grand Tour, a trip across Europe that was something of a rite of passage amongst the British elite. Soane’s visits to the ruins of opulent Classical temples across Italy – Rome, Pompeii, and Paestum, to name a few – would provide inspirations for his designs throughout his career.

Later in life, Soane amassed a collection of architectural models of sites he visited on his Grand Tour, for the benefit of the pupils training as architects in his office, and for the students of architecture he taught at the Royal Academy. These models were assembled first in the attic of the Museum, before in 1834, just three years before his death, he arranged some of these models in the old bedroom of his late wife Elizabeth.

Cork Model of Pompeii Back to top

This sprawling topographic model, covering just under 8 square feet, depicts a section of the excavations at the Roman city of Pompeii. Famously buried beneath volcanic ash by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 72, Pompeii was a source of fascination to British architects seeking to revive the architecture of the Classical world.

Made by the model-maker Domenico Padiglione, the model depicts the southernmost segment of the Roman city as it was whilst still being excavated in the 19th century – the area covered by the model is only a small piece of the area excavated today. Visible on the model are the Grand Theatre, and the Quadriporticus, a large monumental structure thought to have been an exercise field. 

Temples at Paestum Back to top

Though an important source of Classical culture, Greece, then part of the Ottoman Empire, was largely off the map to Grand Tourists during Soane’s era. Architects such as Soane experienced the Greek-style Doric Temple primarily through Greek colonial settlements in Italy, such as the temples of Paestum. Paestum clearly fascinated Soane, who discussed the site in his lectures as a Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy, and owned a number of drawings of the site by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.  These cork models, again by Domenico Padiglione, uses the naturally weathered surface of cork to evoke the crumbling stone of the ancient ruins.

Plaster of Paris models by François Fouquet Back to top

In stark contrast to the crumbling cork of Padiglione’s models, these delicate and incredibly finely-detailed plaster of Paris models were constructed by the French master model-maker François Fouquet.

Where the cork models depict Classical ruins as they were in Soane’s day, the Fouquet models imagine how they may have looked in the ancient past. One of the models depicts a temple at Paestum, allowing direct contrast with the cork Padiglione models; a number of other famous buildings are also present, notably the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, one of Soane’s favourite Roman buildings, topped with a rather fanciful pine cone.

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Restoring the Model Room Back to top

Outside of the spaces protected by the Act of Parliament that created the Museum, and lived in by early Curators, the Private Apartments including the Model Room were gradually lost, converted into offices over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

From 2011 to 2016, a major conservation project restored the Private Apartments, including the Model Room, to how they were upon Soane’s death in 1837. Read more about the Opening up the Soane project.

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