Historic People Museums
At Chimni we are mainly focussed on house history, architecture and building styles, so our focus in this section is on house museums that celebrate and explain different periods of house building. However, dotted around the country are a series of wonderful house museums celebrating famous people and their work. We have listed some of our favourites below:
Historic People Museum Homes in the UK[edit]
Oliver Cromwell’s House - https://www.olivercromwellshouse.co.uk/
Sir John Soane Museum - http://www.soane.org/
Cowper Newton Museum https://cowperandnewtonmuseum.org.uk/
Dickens Museum - https://dickensmuseum.com/
keat’s House - https://keatsfoundation.com/keats-house-hampstead/
Dylan Thomas' Boat House http://www.dylanthomasboathouse.com/
Dr Jenner's House - http://www.jennermuseum.com/
Jane Austen's House - http://www.jane-austens-house-museum.org.uk/about/about.htm
The Brontë's Parsonage, Haworth, West Yorks. https://www.bronte.org.uk/about-us
Robert Burns House -http://www.burnsmuseum.org.uk/
Virginia Woolf's 'Monks House' - http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/monks-house/
Winston Churchill's 'Chartwell' http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/chartwell/
Benjamin Franklin House. http://www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org/site/sections/default.htm
JM Turner's House - Sandycome. http://turnershouse.org/
Oscar Wilde's House - 21 Westland Row, Dublin http://www.tcd.ie/OWC/history/westland.php
Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, Manchester http://elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/
Dr Johnson's House - http://www.drjohnsonshouse.org/
John Milton's Cottage. http://www.miltonscottage.org
Darwin's home at Down House http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/home-of-charles-darwin-down-house/prices-and-opening-times
Richard Jeffries Museum in Swindon http://www.richardjefferies.org/
The World of James Herriot Hill Top, Cumbria the home of Beatrix Potter Shakespeare's Birthplace
Overseas Museums[edit]
Thurber House the home of James Thurber Yasnaya Polyana the home of Leo Tolstoy Mark Twain House he Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts the home of Edith Wharton Highbury, Centennial Park the home of Patrick White Walt Whitman House Emily Dickinson Museum Rowan Oak the home of William Faulkner Anne Frank House Ernest Hemingway Cottage Ernest Hemingway House Pearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark|Green Hills Farm Bulgakov Museum in Moscow Melikhovo the home of Anton Chekhov White Dacha the home of Anton Chekhov Manning Clark House Jean Cocteau House Osamu Dazai Memorial Museum Tarkhany the home of Mikhail Lermontov Margaret Mitchell House and Museum Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate the home of Vladimir Nabokov Monte Cristo Cottage the home of Eugene O'Neill Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum Maison de Victor Hugo