Bleak House Museum

Nice experience

You get into the Victorian atmosphere. It's exciting to see the place from where Dickens wrote some of his works. Amazing the Smuggler's Museum in the basement.

An interesting house, if only seen from outside

Bleak House, Broadstairs, a prominent property on a cliff overlooking Viking Bay, was originally named Fort House as it was the residence of the captain of one of the two coastal forts guarding Broads...

Need to update visiting times

The website says that Bleak House is open every day from 11-5. We went 3 days in a row between those times and it was never open. Granted it was over New Year but then don’t say every day or at least ...

Great Expectations and not disappointed

Chares Dickens writing room in "Bleak House", where he wrote much of "David Copperfield", I found very atmospheric. It is full of artefacts relating to the great man, not a "high tech" display, an...

Never saw museum.

Difficult to locate. Not well signposted. Had to ask passers by. Could not get up the stairs to museum. Garden beautiful and a good place for a coffee.