Erasmus Darwin House
House museum · Lichfield, England
Scientists & inventors
History
Erasmus Darwin House in Lichfield, Staffordshire is the former home of the English poet and physician Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of naturalist Charles Darwin. The house is a Grade I listed building, and is now a writer's house museum commemorating Erasmus Darwin's life.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Erasmus Darwin House”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
About Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Robert Darwin was an English polymath active as a physician, physiologist, botanist, biologist, physicist, metaphysician, inventor and poet who is commonly associated with the Midlands Enlightenment in addition to British abolitionism.
From the Wikipedia article “Erasmus Darwin”, 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.
