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Charles Dickens Museum, Dinner

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Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London, WC1N 2LX - 

  • Users

    Up to
    30 guests

Located in the heart of literary Bloomsbury, the Charles Dickens Museum is the perfect setting for an exclusive event in an enchanting historical setting.

An original Georgian townhouse dating back to 1809, Dickens’s ‘house in town’ is dressed in beautiful period style as if Dickens himself had just stepped out the door. The Grade I listed Charles Dickens Museum provides the perfect setting for an atmospheric dinner, elegant drinks reception, private corporate event or as a historical film location.

Spread over five floors, the Museum provides the evocative setting of an intimate Victorian home. Lit with candles, it can transport your guests to a time when Dickens would have walked the halls, entertained in the Dining Room, held court with his own guests in the Drawing Room and given life to his immortal characters in the quietude of his study.

A candlelit evening in the Museum is an extraordinary experience and provides the perfect environment for an intimate dinner in an unmatched historical setting.

Banquets and all fine dining events take place in the Withdrawing Room. On arrival at the Museum, guests are greeted for pre-dinner drinks in the Museum’s beautiful café and adjoining walled garden.

Prior to dinner, guests are free to have exclusive private access to the Museum and explore all the finely dressed historical rooms in Dickens’s home at their leisure. We can also arrange guided tours of the Museum for small parties on request.

Capacity & layout

Standing

Standing

up to 30

Dining

Dining

up to 30

Cabaret

Cabaret

up to 30

Location

Reviews

  • Anthony Esang

    July 2024

    This Museum holds the world's most important Dickens collection with lots of items including manuscripts, personal items, paintings and other visual sources. The author’s only surviving London house, it’s a chance to experience what Dickens’s home would have been like and learn more about the great novelist. Lovely small museum with gift shop and beautiful garden with café. I really enjoyed wandering round the house

  • Katy Unwin

    August 2024

    Really loved my visit here. Wonderful to see so many authentic personal items gathered in one place and not replicas, which is quite common to see in similar museums. Guides were knowledgeable and welcoming and the tea room was a pleasant oasis in the city.

  • James Marshall

    July 2024

    Great little museum with friendly staff. The decor looks original and the signage is informative and clear. My only gripe is if there is a group being toured, there isn't room to read the signs.