An Isle of Wight museum and gallery will reopen its doors next month with their first exhibition of 2024, Technicolour Dickens: The Living Image of Charles Dickens.

Technicolour Dickens was originally commissioned in 2020 to mark the 150th anniversary of the novelist’s death.

Dimbola Museum & Galleries in Freshwater is bringing it to the Island to coincide with it being 175 years since the publication of David Copperfield, partially written whilst the author was staying at Ventnor.

The exhibition presents Dickens’ story through Victorian photography, with each image brought to life in full technicolour.

In showcasing these works, this collection will sit alongside the work of Julia Margaret Cameron.

A film by Jamie Langton will also form part of the Dimbola exhibition entitled ‘Dickens Island’.

During his time on the Isle of Wight, Dickens befriended Alfred Lord Tennyson who became God father to Alfred Dickens, Charles and Catherine’s sixth child, and was named after him

Visitors will be able to catch the exhibition at Dimbola Museum & Galleries from February 3 until May 19.