literary museums

List of Literary Museums

  • Jane Austen's House Museum Chawton, England

    Jane Austen lived at Chawton Cottage in Hampshire during the happiest and most productive period of her life, from 1809 to 1817.

  • Anna Sewell House Great Yarmouth, England early 17C

    The Sewell House in Great Yarmouth is a Grade II listed building constructed in the early 17th century. Best known as the birthplace of Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty, it is open to visitors as part of the Redwings Horse Sanctuary.

  • Robert Burns Birthplace Museum Ayr, Scotland

    Allan Stevenson, 1900. Single storey and attic, 10-bay asymmetrical-plan museum. Painted harl. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced blank gabled bay to outer left; timber colonnade to right.

  • Keats House

    Last home of the poet John Keats (1818-20).

  • Ernest Hemingway Museum Oak Park, Illinois 1991

    Housed in the Arts Center of Oak Park near the author's birthplace, the Ernest Hemingway Museum displays an impressive variety of photos, artifacts and memorabilia from Hemingway's early life.