- Wikidata identifier:
- Q7339711
- Instance of:
- museum; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 2137
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q7339711/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Personalia
The museum collection comprises artefacts associated with the life of Roald Dahl and includes items owned by Dahl in his lifetime. Objects from the writing hut include clothing and accessories, coins, photographs, writing materials, miscellaneous items collected as hobbies etc, spectacles, a suitcase, rug, walking stick, smoking items, furniture, framed cuttings, pictures, poems etc and books including dictionaries.
Fine Art
The collection includes portraits of the writer e.g. by artists such as Matthew Smith.
Archives
The major part of the collection comprises the Roald Dahl Archive of literary correspondence with agents and publishers; manuscripts, typescripts, annotated proofs, publications and reviews of books published for both adults and children; unpublished material; speeches and articles; screenplays for film and television; scripts for TV series; stage plays; audio work, Roald Dahl’s ‘ideas books’; interviews, biographies and publicity material; correspondence with schools; personal papers including letters written to his family in his schooldays and associated ephemera such as school reports, essays and school photographs; other general family photographs, correspondence and ephemera assembled by Roald Dahl during his lifetime (1916-1990), formerly filed in his garden work hut and donated to the Centre by the Dahl family.
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC