Tickets Alert: Visit Charles Dickens home on Christmas Eve
After he wrote A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens was often credited with inventing the modern Christmas as we know it, so visiting his home is a very Christmasy thing to do.
If you’ve never been before, his home in Bloomsbury is now a museum to the writer, his family and his writings, and over Christmas it’s decorated as it would have been when Charles et al lived there.
A museum so heavily associated with Christmas is rather busier at that time of year, so tickets to visit on Christmas Eve itself tend to sell out fairly soon after they go on sale — which is now. The Charles Dickens Museum will be open on Christmas Eve from 10am to 6pm, serving up mulled wine and mince pies in the kitchen after you’ve wandered around Dicken’s home.
Every visitor who books a Christmas Eve ticket in advance will be automatically entered into a Festive Prize Competition with the chance to win a Dickensian Christmas bumper.
Tickets are on sale from here.
The neighbouring house is also the exhibition space, which will have a display about his pets, which is included in the ticket.
Throughout December, the remarkably versatile James Swanton will perform a one-man show of A Christmas Carol, and tickets are available here.
That other version, with muppets, will be reguarly shown at the Prince Charles Cinema throughout December – details here.
My greatx4 grandparents met Charles Dickens in 1842 in NYC. At a ball in his honour. My greatx4 grandmother thought him a small man. And wrote about all the clamour to meet him & to buy his hair that fell onto the floor after a haircut. She joked that she should have brought some of their fathers to sell in a letter to her children. She had a wry eye 🙂
The Muppet Christmas Carol is a great movie, grounded by a fantastic performance from Michael Caine as Scrooge.