Keats House Museum

21/06/2026

🗣️ 'Hero Dust': Byron's Napoleonic Dramatis Personae

With Napoleon's abdication in 1814, Byron's former idol met an inglorious end - and with him, Byron’s hopes for a new age.

Join us for a talk by Durham University's Toby Lucas on Byron's 'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte', exploring his shift from admiration to disillusionment through a cast of historical, mythological and literary figures. This event is in partnership with the Byron Society.

📅 Thursday 2 July, 6:30-8pm
📍 Keats House, NW3 2RR
🎟️ Tickets £7 - book via Eventbrite (link in bio)

19/06/2026

Keats House will be closed to the public on Sunday 21 June.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience, but we hope that everyone enjoys Hampstead Summer Festival Art Fair, in the garden from 12-5pm ☀🎨

17/06/2026

Tomorrow we have a drop-in workshop for under 5s, where little ones and their adults can make a 'handy' nightingale, do some colouring, or just play!

Taking place in the Nightingale Room in the library building next to Keats House and completely !

Drop-in at any time between 2-4pm or book here to guarantee entry: keatsevents.eventbrite.co.uk

Under 5s events will be running regularly at Keats House, so make sure to keep an eye on our event pages for the next one coming up. Plus we have workshops for school children coming up in the holidays!

10/06/2026

John Keats and F***y Brawne’s famous love story is one of our favourites to share at Keats House.

Discover 'Bright Star' movie posters, a volume of Keats’s love letters to F***y, and plenty more unique Keatsian finds in our gift shop! 🛍️

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05/06/2026

Enjoy a free one hour reading of famous poems about wild animals at 2.15 on 14 June! In the beautiful surroundings of Keats House.
Join us for a fun afternoon of poetry all about wild animals! Whether you love lions, owls, or anything in between, this event’s perfect for anyone who enjoys creative vibes and nature’s wonders.
FREE, reserve a place at https://tinyurl.com/yhefxtuc
Image: 'Tiger in a Tropical Storm' by Henri Rousseau. National Gallery, London
Image credit: National Gallery, London

Enjoy a free one hour reading of famous poems about wild animals! In the beautiful surroundings of Keats House.

03/06/2026

Happy 223rd Birthday, F***y Keats! 🎉

Frances Mary Keats, John Keats's younger sister, was born in 1803.

Growing up, F***y did not see much of her brother while he was at boarding school in Enfield, but the pair were close, with Keats writing her some of his most affectionate letters.

Before leaving Wentworth Place (now Keats House), Keats asked his fiancée, F***y Brawne, to write to his sister. The day after he left for Rome in September 1820, F***y Brawne and F***y Keats began a four-year correspondence, totalling 31 letters. You can read about these on our website.

After her brother's death, F***y Keats lived at Wentworth Place before relocating to Spain with her husband, Valentin Llanos y Gutierrez, in 1833. Their son, Juan Llanos y Keats, painted this portrait of his mother, now in our collection and on display at Keats House.

F***y remained devoted to her brother's memory, and proudly refused to sell the letters Keats had sent her. She lived to the age of 86 and is buried in Madrid.

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02/06/2026

At Keats House our volunteers support all aspects of our work. Each week, when we are closed to the public, one of our volunteers helps to carefully clean one of the historic rooms and the items on display.

Today it was the turn of Mrs Brawne's Kitchen and we hope she would be proud of the care we continue to take, helping conserve it for current and future generations to enjoy and learn from.

You can see it for yourself on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Sundays, 11am - 1pm & 2 - 5pm.

Perhaps you'll meet one of our volunteers or even decide to join our volunteer team!

31/05/2026

Happy !

We’re celebrating with a defining moment in Romantic literary history: the writing of Ode to a Nightingale. Sat beneath a plum tree in the garden of Wentworth Place (now Keats House), John Keats penned what is now one of the most celebrated poems in the English language.

His friend Charles Brown recalled: “In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had built her nest near my house. Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song… he sat for two or three hours.”

When he returned indoors, Brown found scraps of paper tucked behind books. Written on them, in fragments and in handwriting "not well legible", was Ode to a Nightingale.

🎭 Join us today, Sunday 31st May, when we’ll be bringing this moment to life at Keats House through live interpretation, re-enacting Brown’s discovery of the Ode.

29/05/2026

This is Keats House the racehorse! He is doing well at the moment!
Can you think of anything else named after Keats?

26/05/2026

Looking for something to do this half term?

Live interpretation is running all week for half term at Keats House. John Keats and his friend Charles Brown will be bringing history to life as they recreate the moment Brown discovers Keats’s newly-written Ode to a Nightingale.

All included in your admission ticket – and under-18s go free!

🎟️ Keats House is open Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Sundays, 11am-1pm & 2-5pm. Performances will be repeated throughout the day at 11:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm & 3:30pm.