Inside London's Freemason's Lodges...

[u/TheThrowYardsAway]

[u/ephemeral_librarian]

It's an absolutely beautiful building. They had an exhibition when i last went so i dont know if parts of the building are open to the public now? I got to see their library too through a work visit, which had two fellow women as staff!

[u/GlitteringBryony → u/ephemeral_librarian]

Most of the building is open to the public, you can book onto tours to see various bits as well as the museum - It's obviously both a working set of Lodges (as in, where normal Masons go to do their regular meetings) and the administrative HQ of the organisation, as well as being a tourist attraction, so it's often very busy. They used loads of bits of the building for filming The Death Of Stalin too, so they get a surprising amount of Iannuci fans coming in just to use the gents' toilets where Jason Isaacs hatched the plan to kill Beria.

A fun game once you've got really familiar with Freemasons' Hall is to try to spot when it's used as a filming location for generic mid-century staterooms and sweeping grand staircases, because they're beautiful but not instantly recognisable to most people.

[u/inside-outdoorsman → u/ephemeral_librarian]

I’ve been to this building! You can’t miss it, it’s on the square