George Frideric Handel's house has been opened to the public to celebrate his life.The Handel House Museum opened on November 8 in Brook Street, London and has been a big success with museum visitors in its first week.
Martin Eggleston, of the Handel House Museum, said: "It's been going very well. We've had at least 100 visitors a day and the feedback has been very positive. On average visitors have been spending about one and a half hours each in the museum. There is especially interest in the room in which Handel is supposed to have written the Messiah."
Georgian interiors have been recreated using archaeological evidence and an inventory of items in the house taken after Handel's death.
The exhibition includes contemporary portraits of the composer, letters written by Handel and Mozart's hand-written arrangement of a Handel fugue. The V&A, Tate Britain and National Portrait Gallery all contributed to the displays.The museum has four rooms, each illustrating a theme: Handel's London, Handel the man, Performance, and Composition.
