The Museum first started to interpret the life of the world’s most famous crime writer, Agatha Christie, in 1990 through an exhibition to commemorate the centenary of her birth.
Agatha’s family had a long association with the Museum with her father being a member of the Museum Society in 1894. Since 1990 the Museum has had a number of exhibitions both temporary and permanent about her life and works.
Our current gallery is the only permanent exhibition about Agatha in the UK, it tells her story through amazing images from the family archive and a growing collection of over 700 items of books, memorabilia and props owned by the Museum.
Highlights include original manuscript items on loan from the Agatha Christie Archive, costumes worn by David Suchet as Poirot and Joan Hickson as Marple, the set of Poirot’s Office from ITV series and Poirot’s swan cane on loan from David Suchet.
Challenge yourself with the Agatha Christie Quiz (download it below) - answers can be found in the Museum's Christie Gallery.
The silver swan walking stick below with a shaft of black
hardwood was used by David Suchet for over 20 years in his portrayal of Poirot
in the ITV adaptations of the Belgian sleuth, the first episode being
broadcasted in 1989. It was kindly loaned to the Museum by David Suchet in July
2013 and is now on display in the gallery.
To raise much-needed funds for the Museum, different objects
from the Agatha Christie Gallery including this walking stick can be adopted
for a year. If you would like to support the Museum or are looking for an
unusual present for a Christie enthusiast, please contact the Museum
(enquiries@torquaymuseum.org) for more information.
To support the Museum and keep the Agatha Christie gallery
open to the public you can also donate through our Just Giving page below. All
donations are much appreciated.
https://torquaymuseum.org/look-inside-the-galleries/category/agatha-christie-gallery
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She’s sold over 2 billion books - with only the Bible and Shakespeare shifting more. And 100 years since her first novel, Agatha Christie is STILL the Queen of Murder Mystery. As another star-studded Hollywood adaptation is released today, Agatha’s great-grandson and producer on 'A Haunting in Venice' James Pritchard joins us from a place where he shares many happy memories with his famous relative.
He’ll share the secret to a perfect crime story and how Kenneth Branagh
left his A-list co-stars screaming on set. Plus - we'll ask him about Agatha's
own mysterious 11-day disappearance and
the changes made to some of the books to remove outdated and offensive language