Keats House

As a teenager, I loved Keats. So this museum felt like a bit of a pilgrimage for me. The house itself is beautiful – a modest Regency building in Hampstead where Keats lived for just two years, but wrote some of his most famous work including “Ode to a Nightingale” (supposedly under a plum tree in the garden, which you can still see).
The museum does an excellent job of bringing Keats’ life and work to life, with letters, manuscripts, and personal belongings on display. It’s small and intimate – you can see everything in about an hour – but that intimacy is part of the appeal. You really get a sense of the person behind the poetry.
A must-visit for any poetry fans, or anyone interested in Romantic literature. Even if you’re not a Keats devotee, the house and garden are lovely, and Hampstead is worth exploring while you’re there.