Sherlock Holmes Museum, Literary museum in Baker Street, London, United Kingdom
The Sherlock Holmes Museum is a literary museum inside a Victorian townhouse on Baker Street in Westminster, London. The four floors display rooms arranged to match scenes from the detective's stories, including bedrooms, the study, and areas with costumes and props from the cases.
The Georgian building served as a boarding house from 1860 to 1936, then stood empty for decades. It opened as a museum in 1990 after being restored to resemble a Victorian lodging.
The museum carries the address 221B, although it physically sits at 239 – a licence that honours the detective's fictional home. Visitors find the first-floor study with pipe and violin, along with the modest furniture Holmes and Watson supposedly used.
The museum opens daily from half past nine in the morning until six in the evening and sits close to Baker Street Underground station. The narrow stairs and tight rooms make wheelchair access difficult, so guests with limited mobility should plan accordingly.
On the third floor stand wax figures recreating scenes from different cases, such as an encounter between the detective and Professor Moriarty. The souvenir sellers outside the entrance wear Victorian costumes and pose for photos with tourists.
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