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Sherlock Holmes Museum
Difficult to find someone ignorant address hero detective Arthur Conan Doyle - magnificent detective Sherlock Holmes . Baker - Street London street known to readers around the world.
Baker - Street 221b
It is on this street, in this house settled by its world- famous hero . The address specified in the works , constantly received letters from readers , addressed the great detective . Building owners even had to hire a special person to respond to letters .
In fact, this house originally had a different numbering (№ 239) , but the thousands of letters we receive from the great Holmes eventually forced the city government to assign a well-known home room № 221b, causing considerable confusion in addresses.
Creation Museum in Baker Street
Novels of Conan Doyle knows that Holmes and Dr. Watson settled in a house on Baker - Street in 1881 and lived here until 1904 , it is interesting that the author was close to the truth in this house from 1860 to 1934 were rented rooms with furniture.
In 1990 the London Company fans of Sherlock Holmes was decided to perpetuate the memory of the world-famous literary character , opening a museum dedicated to the great detective , fictional character appeared in quite tangible home.
The museum building
House, housing became the great detective of all time, built in Victorian style at the beginning of the XIX century, in 1815.
Today the building is included in the list of Her Majesty structures that represent architectural and historical value . Besides a memorable character (" blue plate ", indicating that the house was inhabited historical figures ), which states that in the years from 1881 until 1904 lived here detective Sherlock Holmes .
In fact, the museum of the famous detective begins immediately with the subway station " Baker Street ", where you will be greeted easily recognizable by the tube and a hunting hat silhouette. Coming out of the subway , you get the famous Baker - Street, which is located in Westminster .
House - museum has four floors . The entire first floor is occupied by a gift shop offering souvenirs somehow related to the famous detective, and a small lounge .
Sherlock Holmes and the famous apartment
On the second floor apartment Holmes , consisting of two rooms - a bedroom and office . So prominent in the works of Conan Doyle's office, which opens onto Baker Street, recreated in the form in which it was described by the author , it is fully preserved the atmosphere of the Victorian era .
Housing Sherlock Holmes was recreated in exact accordance with the published descriptions. Getting to the apartment immediately feel the atmosphere of the time and remember the stories of many stories that tell of the extraordinary intellect of Sherlock Holmes.
museum exhibits
As exhibits - violin and Turkish shoe in which the detective kept tobacco, chemical laboratory equipment and letters pinned to the fireplace shelf using a pocketknife . Another exhibit - army revolver friend and faithful companion detective - Dr. Watson.
Visitors to the museum can fully plunge into the life of the beloved hero, photographed sitting in a chair in front of a burning fireplace.
On the third floor are rooms hostess Hudson ms . The room Mrs. Hudson settled a bronze bust of Sherlock Holmes and The Book of museum visitors .
On the same floor and the room Dr. Watson , which kept many medical books , objects belonging to Holmes's faithful friend .
Heroes works of Conan Doyle
Occupy the entire fourth floor wax figures representing various characters of detective stories .
Wall of the room is decorated with a wax head ghostly Hound of the Baskervilles , terrifying the heroes of the novel . Located in the neighborhood pawnbroker Jabez Wilson, rewriting " Britannica " - the hero of the story "The Red-Headed League " , a professional beggar Neville St. Clair from the story "The Man with the Twisted Lip ". Well . Of course , Professor Moriarty - Holmes' archenemy and leader of all the criminals in London.
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