A museum dedicated to children’s author Roald Dahl (1916-1990), featuring chocolate-scented doors, a friendly giant and a crocodile bench, has been opened in Britain.
The museum and story centre is in Great Missenden, the village in Buckinghamshire (north-west of London), where Dahl wrote many of his classics, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach and Matilda.
An old coaching inn and yard has been transformed into a series of galleries telling the story of Dahl’s life and work through films and interactive displays.
Dahl, who was born in Wales but had Norwegian parents, also wrote the script for the James Bond film You Only Live Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
”He was the most fascinating father anyone would want. He would walk up and down the bedroom and he would be thinking up the story as he told it. That bedroom was really the launching pad for the story”, his daughter Tessa told the BBC on Friday.
Dahl’s granddaughter, international model Sophie Dahl, has herself become a successful writer. — Sapa-DPA