Sherlock Holmes Museum (London)

United Kingdom / England / London / A41 Baker Street, 221b
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During the 1951 Festival of Britain, Sherlock Holmes' sitting-room was reconstructed as the masterpiece of a Sherlock Holmes Exhibition, displaying a unique collection of original material. After the 1951 exhibition closed, items were transferred to the Sherlock Holmes Pub, in London, and to the Conan Doyle Collection in Lucens (Switzerland). Both exhibitions, each including its own very good Baker Street Sitting-Room reconstruction, are still to be seen today. In 1990 The Sherlock Holmes Museum was opened in Baker Street London and the following year in Meiringen Switzerland another Museum was also opened, but naturally they include less historical material about Conan Doyle than about Sherlock Holmes himself. The Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221b Baker Street London was the first Museum in the world to be dedicated to a fictional character.

The real 221b address is south of this location, however the owners of the museum did get the London government to renumber the streets so that the musuem is at the new site of 221b Baker Street.

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Coordinates:   51°31'25"N   -0°9'30"E

Comments

  • Desperately willing to be here infront of the 2 storied as told by Conandoal in a foggy evening wearing a overcoat and a typical Holms cap with a havana ciger in between lips. i will look at the 2nd floor covered glass window where his long shadow sitting on the easy chair playing violin. i will have the very book (written in bengali) in my hand read innumberable times,I will feel the moment ,the dream which I nurished since childhood. dated 5/11/2006
  • Just an ammendment .willing to be here with some one I have just been intriduced. The person is mad abt Holms. 23/03/07
  • If this place is renumbered to 221b, perhaps may somebody show us where's the real 221b address was? Thanks you.
  • Visited in Dec of 2013. Line was 2hrs long, and now having visited, I would say the museum justified about a 10min wait, but not more. Consisted of a small 3 story flat, 2 rooms on each floor, decorated as if Sherlock Holmes had lived there. The clerk in the adjoining gift shop was honest, and estimated the wait would be approx 2 hrs.
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