Final preparations were underway today for the opening of a museum and story centre devoted to Roald Dahl. The museum is housed in an old coaching inn in Great Missenden, the Buckinghamshire village where Dahl, who died in 1990, wrote many of his books. The inn and its yard have been transformed into a series of galleries in which the story of Dahl’s life and work will be told. The museum’s designers have based the centre around the stories and characters from Dahl’s enduringly popular books for children. Younger fans will be delighted by the chocolate doors, the shadowy figure of the BFG and a bench that on closer inspection turns out to be a cunningly disguised crocodile. Read on.