Sherlock Holmes Museum (London)
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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.
sherlock-holmes.co.uk/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b87pVzygqBc
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.
sherlock-holmes.co.uk/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b87pVzygqBc
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_Museum
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