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Sherlock Holmes Museum

221B Baker Street, a Georgian house furnished as the stories describe Holmes's lodgings, waxworks and all, with a queue on the pavement.

Also in Literary London.

There never was a 221B Baker Street when Conan Doyle wrote the stories, and when the numbers caught up the address belonged to a building society, which employed a secretary to answer Holmes's post. The museum, in a house of 1815 that was a boarding house from 1860 to 1936, won the right to the number from Westminster council in 1990, though it stands between 237 and 241. Inside it is the lodgings as the stories describe them from 1881 to 1904: the first-floor study with the fire, the violin, the chemistry bench and the Persian slipper of tobacco, Holmes's and Watson's bedrooms above, and on the top floor a set of waxwork scenes from the cases. A policeman in Victorian uniform keeps the door, the queue on the pavement is part of the experience, and the shop next door sells deerstalkers. It is a museum of the fiction rather than of the author, and makes no apology for it.

Where

221B Baker Street, NW1 6XE

Nearest station

Baker Street · 2 min walk

Hours

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