Exhibitions

The museum holds over 100,000 items including manuscripts, rare editions, personal items, paintings and other visual sources.

Technicolour Dickens: <br>The Living Image of Charles Dickens </br>

Technicolour Dickens:
The Living Image of Charles Dickens

This exhibition explores the power of the writer’s image. Starting in his own lifetime, we trace his image through artist interpretations, radical rethinking in popular culture and new digital technologies and re-imaginings.
COMING SOON
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Beautiful Books: Dickens and the Business of Christmas

This exhibition is a celebration of beautiful books and print technology in the nineteenth century. It explores a Victorian publishing phenomenon and shows how Dickens shaped and coloured Christmas in ways that we still recognise today.

20th November - 19th April 2020

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Global Dickens: For Every Nation Upon Earth

This exhibition presents a global picture of Dickens, exploring the impact of his travels on his life and his writing, and examining how Dickens has gone on to shape the lives of people around the globe.

14th May - 3rd November 2019

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Food Glorious Food: Dinner with Dickens

This exhibition explores the pivotal role of food in the author’s life and novels and give new insights into the experience of dining with Dickens.

28th November 2018 – 22nd April 2019

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Charles Dickens: Man of Science

This exhibition investigates and reveals Dickens’s deep and influential interest in medicine, chemistry, geology, the energy of the Earth and the ability of science to drive change, cure disease, clean the city, clear the atmosphere and inspire the imagination.

24th May - 11th November 2018

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Expectations of the Past

This exhibition of new and recent work by artist Louise Weir, takes visitors on an investigative journey of memory, identity and loss informed by Charles Dickens’s classic novel, Great Expectations.

13th March - 29th April 2018

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