Sherlock Holmes House Museum
The Sherlock Holmes House Museum is located at 221B Baker Street in London, and it is the most popular address in the world. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started writing stories about a fictional detective, he had to specify a house. Doyle used the address given and said that Holmes and his friend, Dr. John Watson, lived here from 1881 to 1904. Today, the museum is one of the most famous attractions not only in the UK, but also in the world.
The interior of the Sherlock Holmes House Museum
The building was built in 1815, it is an "architectural monument" due to its historical and cultural significance. The Victorian office facing Baker Street has been preserved in its original condition, recreating the atmosphere that Holmes and Watson would have enjoyed. There is a bedroom in good condition next to the study in the Sherlock Holmes House Museum. Dr. Watson's bedroom is located on the second floor, overlooking a small backyard.
At the front of the house is Mrs. Hudson's room. All rooms of the Sherlock Holmes House Museum are filled with "personal" items, the purpose of which is to recreate as accurate as possible the details mentioned in the original stories. For example, Dr. Watson's diary is open on the "Hounds of the Baskervilles" page. On the third floor there are exhibition halls with wax models of scenes from Holmes' stories. There is a storage room in the attic, which is used by real guests to store their chests.
The real owner of the house
In short, there is no answer as to who it was, it is known from the records of local authorities that the Sherlock Holmes house was licensed as a boarding house from 1860 to 1934, and this fact should have been known to Doyle when he used the address in his stories. But there are several curious "coincidences", the records show that the maids who worked here were relatives of Mr. Holmes, and in the 1890s, Dr. Watson lived next door. However, he was not a doctor of medicine, but a manufacturer of dentures or, as the records strangely say, "a manufacturer of artificial teeth."
The Sherlock Holmes House Museum is an act of dedication, hard work, and love by people who enjoyed and still enjoy the wonderful fictional characters created by Doyle. The rooms are full of details such as antique newspapers, books stacked haphazardly on the tables, a carelessly thrown deer hunter's hat, a bucket of coal in the fireplace. This is not a museum where sharp-eyed stewards will hiss at you to keep your hands off the exhibits, this is a place where you almost become part of the exhibits yourself.
