Charles Dickens Museum
Charles Dickens's only surviving London home, at 48 Doughty Street, where he lived from 1837–1839 and wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby, opened as a museum in 1925.
- Museum
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Did you know
The Georgian terraced house was actually a boarding house by the 1920s and slated for demolition until the Dickens Fellowship bought and saved it in 1923, opening it as a museum two years later. This is the actual surviving building, not a recreation.
Local tip
The house is set up exactly as a Victorian middle-class home, as if Dickens has just stepped out, so it rewards slow browsing room to room rather than a quick pass through. This is genuinely the desk where Oliver Twist was written.
Finding it
- Address
- 48-49, Doughty Street, Holborn, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England, WC1N 2LX
- Nearest station
- Russell Square (Tube), 574 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- The DukeA Grade II-listed 1930s Art Deco pub on a quiet Bloomsbury backstreet, with original lino, period mirrors and a rear room of open timber-and-reeded-glass drinking booths.
- The Postal Museum and Mail RailA museum of postal history in Clerkenwell, paired with a ride on Mail Rail, the narrow-gauge railway that once carried post through tunnels beneath London.
- The Foundling MuseumA museum near Coram's Fields telling the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first children's charity and first public art gallery, founded in 1739 by philanthropist Thomas Coram.
- Novelty AutomationA small Holborn arcade of handmade satirical machines built by a single inventor, playable with tokens bought on site.