This museum overlooking the Spanish Steps occupies the apartment where English Romantic poet John Keats died of tuberculosis aged 25. He came here in 1820 seeking recovery, but his illness, already severe, was worsened by time in quarantine near Naples and ineffective treatments. Since 1906, the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association has run the museum here, with fascinating artifacts and letters.
Keats' reconstructed walnut boat bed is displayed in his modest room – the original, along with everything else in the room, was burned to prevent the spread of infection.
