Founded in 1925 in the only surviving family home of Charles Dickens in London, the Museum holds the world’s most comprehensive collection of material relating to Dickens, comprising furniture, personal effects, paintings, letters, manuscripts, and rare editions amongst other materials.

Today the Charles Dickens Museum is set up as though Dickens himself had just left. It appears as a fairly typical middle-class Victorian home, complete with furnishings, portraits and decorations which are known to have belonged to Dickens. A visit to the museum allows you to step back into 1837 and to see a world which is at once both familiar, yet astonishingly different. A world in which one of the greatest writers in the English language, found his inspiration.

The Museum is open to the public five days a week, and the historic house is complemented by a lively interactive exhibition programme exploring Dicken’s contemporary relevance, as well as school and family learning programmes. The museum also works with young people and adults who are members of community groups in the local area.