The museum is in the small village of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, where Roald

Dahl lived and wrote his books

Boy gallery

During his years at Repton, the chocolate company Cadbury would send boxes of new chocolates to the school to be tested by the pupils. Roald Dahl used to dream of inventing a new chocolate bar that would win the praise of Mr Cadbury himself, and this provided the inspiration

for him to write his third book for children, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Aged eight, Roald and four of his friends put a dead mouse in a jar of sweets at the local sweet shop, which was owned by a ‘mean and loathsome’ old woman called Mrs Pratchett.

This was known amongst the five boys as the ‘Great Mouse Plot of 1923’.

Solo gallery

Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

The last sentence in ‘The Minpins’

They had 5 children: Olivia, Tessa, Theo,

Ophelia and Lucy

During WW2 he was an RAF pilot

To stretch his tennis shoes, Dahl came up with an ingenious solution. He filled two bags with water, tucked

one into each shoe and put the shoes into the freezer overnight. The

frozen water expanded and stretched the shoes!

Story Centre

JK Rowling writes in cafes

Roald Dahl cut a hole into the back of his chair to stop it pressing on his spine, injured when his plane crashed during the Second World War.

Fantastic Mr Fox

Fantastic Mr Dahl

The End