Artists Homes

Today we are going to take a look to different houses of all times artists that actually attract lots of tourism. It’s actually a more cultural kind of tourism since artist homes are mainly visited by people who are interested in the person’s life and their work, however, it’s still a strong business with a long future.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We are going to start with Shakespeare probably the most famous classic artist.

The amazing writer, poet and actor William Shakespeare was born in a typical wood house from the XVI century. It is set in a little town on the heart of England, Warwickshire. Nowadays it is a little museum opened for everybody. The dramaturge lovers or writers usually visit it and are captured by the essence of Shakespeare and it’s love to the arts.

More than one million tourists visit this museum every year.

REMBRANDT

Now it’s time to talk about Rembrandt whose house we can find in Amsterdam. The painter bought this house in his best years for a price of 30.000 guilders. A few years later he had financial problems and was forced to auction the house. Rembrant had then to move to a smaller house. Grace to the auction, today we can visit the house and see how Rembrant lived in his best years.

The museum was inaugurated in 1911. The most important room that can be visited is where he painted his artworks. Also we can visit the kitchen and other rooms, one of them where we can even find some objects that he used for some of his paintings.

 The prices are the following:

Adults:10€

Students:7€

Children from 6-17 years old: 3€

Younger than 5 years old: Free

The visit includes an audio explication which helps you discover the curiosities of each room.

SHERLOCK HOLMES

Let’s talk about the most important detective of London; Sherlock Holmes. We can find this house-museum in Baker Street that was inaugurated in 1990.

As the novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said this was the home of the characters Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and Miss Hudson (the lady of keys).

The museum is divided in threee floors:

The first floor is the most important one, because it is where we can find the detective room and the office where he and his collegue worked. Up in the second floor we can find Watson’s and Miss Hudson’s rooms. There we can also see all of their belogings as if in any moment they had to appear. Last but not least, the third floor is the one ocupated by the most important character, Sherlock, who appeares as a wax figure.

It is really interesting to visit this museum because every detail is perfectly represented and you can feel the suspens of Sherlock with you.

The prices are;

Adults: 6€

Less than 16 years old:4€

It is incredible how a business can be born  from an artist that years ago produced master pieces or even a fiction character created by a writer. All this characters are known arround the world and only with their name, a house can get a different purpose like for example become a museum and consequently obtain a profit from this.

Can you imagine that Shakespeare or Rembrandt could see that their houses are visited by thousands of tourists every year?