Great Expectations Exhibition

This is the last few days to visit our Great Expectations exhibition ' So I called myself Pip...' and to wonder at the magnificent display of Miss Havisham's wedding feast by local artist Fred White. Also on display is the original manuscript of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

"one of the iconic images of English literature"
Miriam Margolyes

The Collection - An Introduction. Walking through the entrance to the museum you enter into a treasure house of curiosities and wonderment....

Christmas and New Year Closing

We will be closed from the 

23 December until 21 January 2013 inclusive.

All the Staff, Trustees, Friends and Volunteers

would like to wish you a

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

Museum Library Exhibition

Miriam Margolyes talks Dickens's Women

Contact the Angles Theatre to make a booking

www.anglestheatre.co.uk

Dickens First Day Cover now available to order

The Wisbech Museum and All Saints' Church, Walsoken, have come together to produce a limited edition first day cover to mark the bi-centenary of the birth of Charles Dickens. The cover will include stamps with a Dickensian theme.

Only 280 covers will be produced and signed covers will be limited to 20 of each name and will include:

Gillian Anderson, Douglas Booth, Simon Callow, Dame Judi Dench, Gerald Dickens, Stephen Fry, Sir George Martin CBE and Ron Moody. Patrick Stewart is already sold out!

Great Expectations facsimile now available

David Wright, Wisbech & Fenland Museum's curator talks about the original manuscript of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.

A facsimilie is now available at the Museum at £29.99.