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Wisbech & Fenland Museum in Wisbech

Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places·Wisbech & Fenland Museum in Wisbech·4 days ago
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Built in 1847 and designed  by architect George Buckler, this fine Victorian  building  on the former  site of Wisbech Castle was purpose built as a museum  to house and display the collection previously held in in two rooms of a property in Old Market Place. Initially open to subscribing members only the original  collection shared its premises with the Wisbech Literary  Society (the  Literary Society and Museum formally merged in 1877) and this may account for the fact that a small museum  in a small  market  town in Cambridgeshire houses the manuscript of Charles Dickens’s novel “Great Expectations.” The collection also includes that of “Hours of Idleness,” the first collection of poems by Lord Byron.…

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