Kettle's Yard

Francisco's friend also took us to one of the most unusual museums I've ever encountered--Kettle's Yard. Kettle's Yard was created by a former curator of the Tate gallery who, with his wife, bought and decorated a house and donated it to Cambridge University. It's free to enter as he wanted students to come and sit and visit with the art and other decorations. You can enter every part of the house (except the kitchen).

There are flowers and plants and seashells and stones and other bits of the natural world, in addition to chairs and other furniture to sit in and art to look at.

It's inspiring--it makes you want to curate your house with as much care and attention to beauty as Jim and Helen Ede did this house.

The only complaint I had is, how can you have a house without having food? There are tables, but not even tea (which is otherwise ubiquitous in England).

Regardless, it is a very nice place to enjoy art. There aren't even signs beside the works of art, so unless you recognize the artwork, and I only recognized a bit (it's primarily British art from the first half of the 20th century), you just have to enjoy it on it's own terms. The founder was attempting to create "a living place where works of art would be enjoyed, inherent to the domestic setting, where young people could be at home unhampered by the greater austerity of the museum or public art gallery, and where an informality might infuse an underlying formality."