🏛️ Famous Houses Map

Charles Dickens Museum

House museum · London, England

Writers & poets

Charles Dickens Museum
Photo: Peter Trimming, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

History

The Charles Dickens Museum is an author's house museum at 48 Doughty Street in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden. It occupies a typical Georgian terraced house which was Charles Dickens's home from 25 March 1837 to December 1839.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Charles Dickens Museum”, CC BY-SA 4.0.

About Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

From the Wikipedia article “Charles Dickens”, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Visiting

This is a house museum. Opening times, tickets and access change, so check the official website before you travel. Get directions.

Nearby famous houses