Sherlock Holmes House Museum
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 began writing stories about the fictional detective, he had to specify a house. Doyle used the address 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.
Interior of the Sherlock Holmes House Museum
The building was built in 1815 and is a listed building due to its historical and cultural significance. The Victorian study, overlooking Baker Street, has been preserved in its original condition, recreating the atmosphere that Holmes and Watson would have enjoyed. Next to the study in the Sherlock Holmes House Museum is a bedroom in good condition. On the second floor is Dr. Watson's bedroom 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 accurately as possible the details mentioned in the original stories. For example, Dr. Watson's diary is open to a page with entries from The Hound of the Baskervilles. On the third floor there are exhibition rooms with wax models of scenes from Holmes's stories. There is a storage room in the attic, which the real guests here use to store their chests.
The real owner of the house
In short, there is no answer as to who it was, local government records show that Sherlock Holmes's house was licensed as a boarding house from 1860 to 1934, a fact that must have been known to Doyle when he used the address in his stories . But there are some interesting 'coincidences', records show that the maids who worked here were related to 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, work and love of the people who enjoyed and still enjoy the wonderful fictional characters created by Doyle. The chambers are full of details, such as old newspapers, books stacked haphazardly on tables, a carelessly tossed deer hunter's hat, a bucket of coal on the fireplace. This is not a museum where watchful stewards will hiss at you to keep your hands off the exhibits, this is a place where you almost become part of the exhibits.
