The Charles Dickens Museum in London will celebrate its 100th birthday by offering free entry to his former home and a chance to meet the author's living descendants.
Visitors on 9 June will find a living member of Dickens' family in each of the historic rooms, where they can hear talks and readings.
The Charles Dickens Museum, at 48 Doughty Street, is the only surviving London house in which Charles Dickens lived and where he wrote the stories that made him internationally famous.
The date also marks the 155th anniversary since Charles Dickens' death.
In Dickens' study, visitors will be able to meet his great-great-grandson Mark Dickens, who will be reading A Christmas Carol.
In the next room, his great-great-grandson, Gerald Dickens, will discuss the Staplehurst train crash of 1865, which Dickens survived and which inspired him to write the ghost story The Signalman.
Ollie Dickens, his great-great-great-grandson, will read from Oliver Twist in the room in which the story was written.
Director of the Charles Dickens Museum, Frankie Kubicki, said: "If you come and see us on our 100th birthday, there is every chance that you will find yourself savouring the atmosphere in the room where Dickens wrote Oliver Twist or sizing up Dickens's writing desk and chair alongside the current head of the Dickens family.
"Our centenary exhibition is stuffed full of the museum's greatest hits, so there could be no better time to come and see the house where Charles Dickens became a star."