Warm and Happy wishes for 2013 - To start off 2013, I have selected a small preview form my shoot at the newly refurbished Charles Dickens Museum. Enjoy!

The architects’ Purcell UK has overseen the newly completed refurbishment and extension of the Charles Dickens Museum in London.

The Charles Dickens Museum, the author’s former Bloomsbury home, is once again open following a major investment that has seen the building transformed and doubled in size in Dickens’s bicentenary year.

The £3.1m Great Expectations project, funded substantially through the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), is the most significant legacy of Dickens’s bicentenary, securing the future of the building for generations to come and offering a brand new visitor experience for the 21st century. The re-opening of the Museum is a fitting finale to a year of worldwide Dickens celebrations.

As well as restoring the house at 48 Doughty Street – Dickens’s home at the start of his career and the birthplace of classics Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby – and opening the house’s attic and kitchen for the first time, the Museum has expanded into neighbouring 49 Doughty Street. The adjacent building has been converted into a state-of-the-art Visitor and Learning Centre with rooms available for formal and informal learning events, study and reading facilities.

The redevelopment project has given the Museum the once in a lifetime opportunity to conserve and improve the historic building at 48, restoring the Grade-I-listed house to its original early Victorian splendour with the help of heritage specialists and literary scholars.

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For Museum enquiries contact:The Charles Dickens Museum, 
48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX
T: +44(0)20 7405 2127 
E: info@dickensmuseum.com