Handel Hendrix House

A museum display in two Georgian houses on Brook Street, London, linking the composer George Frideric Handel and the guitarist Jimi Hendrix, who lived and worked on the same street about two centuries apart.

The display brings together two homes on Brook Street that were once separated only by a wall. At number 25, visitors can explore the Georgian house where Handel composed for 36 years, starting in 1723. Next door, at number 23, the flat on the top floor is presented as the place where Jimi Hendrix held television appearances between 1968 and 1969.

The visit moves from the baroque world of Handel to the rock era of Hendrix, and it is laid out as a walk through the two houses rather than a single gallery. Its focus is on musicians who chose London as their home and changed music in the process, so the visit suits anyone interested in the city's musical history, from those drawn to eighteenth-century domestic settings to fans of late-1960s rock.

The display is held at Handel Hendrix House, a museum housed in the Georgian buildings themselves, and it forms part of the permanent collection.