Charles Dickens Museum London
9.50 GBP
Flyctory.com Pros
- Beautiful collection of Dickens items
- Original house with a good view on life in London in the 19th century
You might find this statement multiple times within my December 2020 postings – but A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is simply my favorite Christmas story. Thus, I felt I should definitely share my thoughts about visiting the Charles Dickens Museum in the heart of London during this very special festive season with you. Here is my museum review.

Charles Dickens Museum – Location & Admission
The museum is located in 48 Doughty Street in a quite central location in Holborn. The next Underground Station are Russell Square and Chancery Lane. The Postal Museum is nearby. The front of the building was under reconstruction during our visit – but that did not limit the museum visit itself at all.
Adult admission is 9.50 GBP. During normal times, the museum is open dailly, 10:00 to 17:00 hrs.

Charles Dickens Museum – The Visit
In fact, you do not only visit Charles Dickens original home at 48 Doughty Street, but also the house next door, 49 Doughty Street, where solicitor Henry Pickards was living. The museum also covers that house. This allows that – apart from the basement, where you use the same staircase, to have a full round trip through the museum.
You enter the museum through Pickards’ house, but then directly head into Dickens’ premises. The ground floor features the entrance hall, the very interesting dining room and the so-called Morning Room, which was majorly used for family things and to welcome visitors.




From there you head on to the basement, which features the kitchen, the washhouse and the wine cellar. The exhibition of the museum in here is illustrating Dickens’ life in London, but more than that feels like a general museum about life during that era.



After the basement, you head two floors up. The two rooms on that floor are the Drawing Room and Dickens’ Study. In further parts of the visit (on upper floors), you also visit the dressing room, the Nursery and Servants’ room as well a the bedrooms. The visit is very impressive and the items presented are really rich.









On the other hand, the museum features special exhibition rooms, expeciall in the former Pickard’s House. There is are lot of interesting pieces of literature, not only Dickens’ ones. However, the highlight of that part of the visit definitely was one of the copies of the first edition of A Christmas Carol to me. You also learn about literature distriubution in Dickens’ times.





Charles Dickens Museum – Services
There is a small museum shop close to the entrance and a cafe with access to the garden. The staff in the museum was very helpful and attentive.
Charles Dickens Museum – My View
The Charles Dickens Museum may not be on the top list of your places to visit – but you should definitely consider it – not only during Christmas times. The place is run with a lot of love and you get a lot of background information about Dickens and his life as well as the lifestyle in London during the 19th century. To me, it was one of nicest small museum visits I did in the city. Well done!
Postings about London
Here are all postings related to the UK Capital:
Rock and harder rock styles have been a bit of under-represented in here the last weeks. The more I am ...
Read More
A legendary name of the music business is releasing his sixth solo album: Alan Parsons is back in the record ...
Read More
Being able to have a look into the Courtyard by Marriott London City Airport was the cause of a rather ...
Read More
In June 2022, I had the opportunity to have a (for me) rather unique experience as a rail traveler: right ...
Read More
In June 2022, I had a night at the Premier Inn London Paddington Basin. The booking was quite short-noticed after ...
Read More
Adding a rail connection for Heathrow Airport, improving the travel options between the West and the East of London - ...
Read More
For a Saturday evening show at The O2 in London, I have been looking for a reasonably priced hotel with ...
Read More
Due to illness, I unfortunately cannot provide you the full coverage on the music side of Flyctory.com - and it ...
Read More
Quite some hectic a few weeks before I actually visited my favorite musical Rock of Ages again. After the show has been ...
Read More
It happens very rarely that I can use the same title picture for multiple postngs. The review of Suki Waterhouse's I ...
Read More
The last entry of my (multi-day) trip reports is typically a bit of boring. Getting to the airport, flying back ...
Read More
First day of my Weird Al trip in April 2022. I was initially even thinking about merging it with Day ...
Read More
Oh, I feel that the Songs Of The Week are really a tradition on Flyctory.com now. More than three months since I ...
Read More
Placebo are back after quite a hiatus from studio albums: after some compilations and live albums, Never Let Me Go is the ...
Read More
SMKC is a magical abbreviation in rock music business. It merges guitar giant slash, legendary Myles Kennedy and band member ...
Read More
Kiefer Sutherland is a world-famous actor since many years, but since quite a while, he is also growing a fan ...
Read More
Even though I do have a couple of airport reviews on Flyctory.com, I so far missed a lot of the ...
Read More
On 29th October 2021, Billy Bragg is already publishing his fourteenth album, The Million Things That Never Happped. With Bragg looking ...
Read More
If you ran into a band which released the songs Damn The Amsterdam and Bavaria Area, what would you do? ...
Read More
Without a doubt, Sir Elton John is one of the very big names in the music industry. Time feels to ...
Read More
I am not too much a big fan of splitting albums into several EPs. As I wrote in my Does ...
Read More
Renting a car at London Heathrow Airport typically leads to a shuttle bus ride from one of the terminals to ...
Read More
Likely, you would not rate William Michael Albert Broad to be one of the biggest English music legends. However, you ...
Read More
In the current pandemic situation, you just have to do the review when there is a release by a band ...
Read More
Big name - big album? When Iron Maiden stated that they will release Senjutsuon 3rd September 2021, this release had ...
Read More
The press kit for The Yearbook by Baby Queen roughly started with the words, "Whatever you have planned on your ...
Read More
During the later phases of the Covid-19 lock-downs in Germany, I had the idea to that posting. Maybe just because ...
Read More
Gary Kemp is to me one of these "I am sure I know this guy, but I don't know from ...
Read More
As you know from other reviews, I am not too much a fan of press kit marketing descriptions about music ...
Read More
Due to their high incidences on the delta variant of Covid-19, the United Kingdom is still / again in the ...
Read More
Right next to Waterloo Station, the Merlin Entertainments Ltd. drives quite a bunch of places for the London tourist heart ...
Read More
If two of your first three singles already made about a quarter million streams each on Spotify, you are likely ...
Read More
Four years again... London Grammar released their second album about four years after their debut, in 2017. Now, on 16th ...
Read More
Mr. Big meets Iron Maiden - or at least one member each of their former lineups. On 26th March 2021, ...
Read More
A band who wants to keep rock'n'roll alive - these kind of artists are always very welcome on Flyctory.com. When ...
Read More
2.5 million visitors per day - Madame Tussauds is definitely one of the most popular touristic destinations of London. The ...
Read More
The release list as of 12th March 2021 was just massive. Even though I had quite a lot of albums ...
Read More
It used to be the Millennium Wheel, turned to be the British Airways London Eye and now it is the ...
Read More
Before the pandemic limitations, One New Change Mall in London has been a really popular place. First of all, it ...
Read More
The limited travel intensity during summer and fall 2020 lead to some interesting budget travel opportunities. During a trip to ...
Read More
I assue that there is hardly any travel guide for London, which is mentioning the Namco Funscape as an important ...
Read More
After praising my favorite songs of 2020 and the favorite albums and EPs in 2020, the final posting to do ...
Read More
After having released four editions of the Songs Of My Life already, I felt like having a special one just a ...
Read More
It is still uncertain when there will be regular touristic travel between the United Kingdom or Europe and North America ...
Read More
In my first episode of the Songs of My Life, I talked about Hymn by Ultravox, which became a Song of My ...
Read More
I love A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Though I am especially favoring the Muppets movie version, I was absolutely fond ...
Read More
I am not too much in Harry Potter - but therefor, my wife is compensating my lack of knowledge. After ...
Read More
There have been a lot of album postponements due to Covid-19 - a lot of them were just pushed as ...
Read More
Radio, Radio - I have a very special relation to this Elvis Costello classic: whenever something goes completely wrong at a ...
Read More
I would say that the opening of the Hilton Garden Inn London Heathrow Terminal 2/3 has been one of the ...
Read More
Katie Melua was huge when she sang about bicycles in Beijing. Step by step, the focus of the music industry ...
Read More
As I delayed some reviews after I saw that Covid-19 will have a significant impact on us and our travel ...
Read More
Late summer 2020 is just a massive concentration of interesting albums. One key reason for that is that so many ...
Read More
I could not react any more when finally the C2C Country to Country in London 2020 had been cancelled. Thus, ...
Read More
A view over London from a skyscraper for free, located in a beautiful garden-alike area - and all this even ...
Read More
Just before I was up to start my Friday session for the reviews as of 28th August 2020, I ran ...
Read More
With British Airways' decision to move all short-distance connections including the one to Cologne/Bonn airport to Heathrow, I unfortunately will ...
Read More
The Mithraeum in London is maybe one of the hidden gems of the British capital. During exvacation works in London ...
Read More
It is definitely no lie to call Andy Bell and Vince Clarke musical legends. The electro pop duo, which is ...
Read More
With nearly 310 meters, The Shard close to the South Bank of River Thames is the tallest building of the United ...
Read More
Though Jessie Ware is already a quite established artist in the world between pop, R&B and soul, I just happened ...
Read More
I'm Too Sexy and Don't Talk Just Kiss - it is hard to state that you do not Know any Right Said ...
Read More
For the transatlantic flights of my February 2020 trip to California supporting the Pittsburgh Penguins, I had a personal Star ...
Read More
When I am preparing the selection of my first wave of album and EP reviews for each weekend, I sometimes ...
Read More
Visiting Brett Eldredge's and Lauren Jenkins' final show of their January 2020 European tour (here are reviews of their Amsterdam ...
Read More
Four ice hockey matches, Rock of Ages #32 in Hollywood, two new airlines and many more impressions - this trip ...
Read More
Day 1 of my trip to the Penguins. The travel days to the US are typically not too thrilling. Leaving ...
Read More
Since my recent trips to Singapore and Taiwan latest I know that the true hero of Asian pop culture is ...
Read More
The De Havilland company is a huge name in the aviation history, especially regarding British aviation history. Close to the ...
Read More
In early January 2020, I had a British Airways Mileage Run, flying from Cologne/Bonn to Gatwick and then spending a ...
Read More
During a November 2019 stay in London, I opted for the DoubleTree right at Victoria Station. Especially as we were ...
Read More
For just one month, Nintendo installed a Pokemon Center pop-up store in London, the so-called Pokemon Center London. I have ...
Read More
The place is so tiny and mousy that there is a huge potential to miss it: if you are exploring ...
Read More
During the London Country Music Week, Country 2 Country traditionally presented the lineup for the festival. Every year, fans pray ...
Read More
If I would turn Flyctory.com into a food blog, I am sure it would be a terrible fail. Nevertheless, there ...
Read More
Thousands of people pass Hatton Cross every day without ever getting an impression of the area. The Piccadilly Line London ...
Read More
Premier Inn is a branch of budget hotels which is especially active in the United Kingdom. There are, however, also ...
Read More
After I stayed at the ibis Styles London ExCeL during the Country 2 Country 2018 already, I chose the hotel ...
Read More
In May 2019, I had another weekend trip to London. As my wife and I flew into London City Airport, ...
Read More
Just two days after I touched German soil back from CMA Fest 2019, I flew to London for another country ...
Read More
As part of a company event in Paris, I was able to see the Tutankhamun exhibition. Until the completion of ...
Read More
A picturesque city center and a huge variety of superb museums - Oxford is one of the key tourist destination ...
Read More
I chose the ibis Canning Town just North of the River Thames as my stay for the Country 2 Country ...
Read More
London's three major airports, Heathrow, Gatwick and Standsted, are all some sort of a mess, when you in fact want ...
Read More
Before I visited Danielle Hope's amazing show at the Zedel near Piccadilly Circus, I decided to go for another Stadium ...
Read More
My first steps around O2 Arena in London during the Country 2 Country Festival 2019 were not motivated by country ...
Read More
The beginning of March 2019 was a country music powerhouse to me. The Country 2 Country (C2C) debut in Berlin, ...
Read More
After my 2018 debut at the London Country 2 Country and the first-time German event in Berlin the weekend before, ...
Read More
When Germany intensified their offensive efforts during World War II, Winston Churchill decided to built a bunker in Central London ...
Read More
The first time I saw Danielle Hope on stage was in the female lead character Sherrie in my favorite musical ...
Read More
Due to a Eurowings flight cancellation on a London daytrip in early January, I got stuck at Stansted Airport. The ...
Read More
While Air Belgium is doing their very own route from Brussels-Charleroi to Hong Kong, they are currently also supporting the ...
Read More
British Airways flight BA 1 has always been on my bucket list. The very special connection between London and New ...
Read More
As you might have seen in the other blog entries, I have been attending Europe's major country music festival, the ...
Read More
Country 2 Country, short: C2C, has established to be the largest country music festival in Europe. In fact, it is ...
Read More
Flyctory.com about Christmas
Here are all Flyctory.com postings which deal with Christmas in any way:
Christmas is approaching really quick now. While I traditionally do a festive edition of my Country Music Picks, I also ...
Read More
Oberhausen might not be regarded to be one of the most beautiful cities of the German Ruhrgebiet region - but ...
Read More
As I already told you last year when I reviewed the Charles Dickens Museum in London, I am a huge ...
Read More
Okay, I give in. In the world of country music, Christmas starts in early September. That's when the first song ...
Read More
Lucinda Williams is back. Just not too long after I at a look into the second episode of her Lu's Jukebox, ...
Read More
An alternative view on the holidays: as part of my series of Christmas album reviews, I look into For Christmas ...
Read More
Heading Journey lead Steve Perry straight into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (and also to one episode of ...
Read More
The Austrian band Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (hard to translate without spoiling it, it is an ironic wordplay with Versicherung = ...
Read More
The last Brett Eldredge album I reviewed has been Sunday Drive in July 2020. Now, the country music big gun is ...
Read More
Four Christmas song on a small EP: I just liked the sound of Tom Aquinas when his XMas Greetings became available ...
Read More
Merry Christmas everyone... Ooops, it is just the beginning of October... However, after I already reviewed the album Weihnachtszeit by ...
Read More
One of the German schlager artists I honor most is definitely Roland Kaiser. He is active since decades and is ...
Read More
We all know that Santa Claus is living in Rovaniemi, Finland... Or is he home to Russia? Northern Canada? There ...
Read More
140,000 square meters of indoor space and a capacity of 20,000 people per day - the IMG Worlds of Adventure ...
Read More
After having released four editions of the Songs Of My Life already, I felt like having a special one just a ...
Read More
I love A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Though I am especially favoring the Muppets movie version, I was absolutely fond ...
Read More
Doing things once is an innovation, doing it the second time makes it turn into a tradition: after I did ...
Read More
Just about one month left until we are facing our very first socially distanced Christmas. Especially after hard times in ...
Read More
The story of Ross Antony is quite amazing: having an English education as a musical artist, Antony is nowadays a ...
Read More
Even though I have not be overwhelming fond of her recent album good to know, I generally love JoJo and her ...
Read More
After I struggled with her third album Treat Myself, which has been released at the beginning of the year, I was ...
Read More
It is hard to put a create a good definition of the music Andrew Bird is doing. It is folk, ...
Read More
Runaway June's debut album Blue Roses has been much more successful than I expected when I reviewed it in June ...
Read More
It's Christmas time... and while the classic Do They Know it's Christmas? continues with and there's no need to be ...
Read More
Don't you feel the urge as well to talk about trees, angels, presents and Santa Clause? While I had four ...
Read More
Dolly Parton is the legend and "mother" of all female country music stars out there - no doubt. But during ...
Read More
Due to my passion for Weird Al Yankovic, I know Jim "Kimo" West for a couple of years now. Kimo ...
Read More
Even during my December 2019 stay in Pittsburgh, I frequently did get in touch with Christmas. There were not just ...
Read More
December - Christmas time! Especially after I had so many postings about Christmas markets in here, I felt to add ...
Read More
After reviewing four Christmas markets in Cologne recently, I did not expect to get in touch with any additional ones ...
Read More
The Christmas Market in Cologne's Old Town is the largest of the city. Under the slogan "Heinzel's Wintermärchen" (something like Good ...
Read More
The Stadtgarten in Cologne is both, a recreational park in the heart of the city, whose facilities are protected, and ...
Read More
Cologne Cathedral and a 25 meter high Christmas tree - these are the key ingredients, which turn the Christmas Market ...
Read More
During each festive season, Cologne is crowded with tourists and visitors due to its Christmas markets. There are masses of ...
Read More
The closer we are to Mr Santa, the more the record stores and online providers of tunes are loaded with ...
Read More
When you think about a great Christmas time in one of the Orlando theme parks, you likely first think about ...
Read More
Post Views:
944