The original Housemuseum at 219 Cotham Road is the former private residence of museum founding patrons Corbett and Yueji Lyon and is open for pre-booked tours on designated days each year.

It presents a unique combination of family residence and private museum where 'museum' and 'living' are brought together in a single building. In 2010, Larry's List named the Housemuseum 'one of the world's 10 most exciting buildings of private museums'.

Designed by architect Corbett Lyon, the Housemuseum builds on a lineage of private art collections housed and displayed in residential settings including Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, New York’s Frick Collection, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and London's Wallace Collection.

The Housemuseum presents a permanent exhibition of key works from the Lyon Collection.

Check available tour dates and make a booking here.

The adjacent Galleries at 217 Cotham Road were completed at end of 2018 as a major expansion of the original Housemuseum.

The Galleries, also designed by Lyon, include large, flexible exhibition spaces specifically designed for large scale artworks and installations. A public forecourt and enclosed sculpture court extend the museum spaces beyond their physical boundaries .

In 2024 the Galleries and Housemuseum were joined together to form a single integrated museum precinct.