There will be free entry to the Charles Dickens’ Birthplace Museum on Thursday – February 7, 2019 between 10 am to 5 pm. The museum is located at Charles Dickens’ Birthplace Museum, 393, Old Commercial Road, PO1 4QL Portsmouth.
As the birthday of Charles Dickens is falling in this week, the city is celebrating his birthday in his birthplace in Portsmouth. The museum is offering free admission on 7th February. There will be celebrations of his birthday with laying of a wreath at his birthplace. The Lord Mayor of Portsmouth – Councillor Lee Mason will be taking part in this celebration and lay a wreath at 11 am at the museum to honour the great person.
All those interested can visit the museum on the day for free of charge and there will be hourly reading taking place between 11 am and 4 pm from the Dickens fellowship. Generally the museum is open from 1st April to 30th September on Fridays to Sundays.
Cabinet Member for Culture, Leisure and Sport – Councillors Steve Pitt said that they are proud and lucky to get a chance to celebrate Dickens’ birthday at his birthplace and celebrate the world’s famous author’s life and works born in Portsmouth.
He was born on February 7, 1812 at Mile End Terrace, Landport, which is now at 393, Old Commercial Road, Portsmouth. There are three furnished rooms in the house – the parlour, the dining room and the bedroom where Charles was born. The exhibition room will have displays on Charles Dickens and some collection of memorabilia such as the couch on which he died, his snuff box, paper knife and inkwell, etc.
The Arts Council England has given national accreditation status to the museum in 2016. The major works of the author include Sketches by Boz, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, American Notes, Martin Chuzzlewit, A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend and Edwin Drood.
