Sherlock Holmes Museum
⭐ Highligts
Holmes & Watson Study
Iconic 221B sitting roomLaid out with chemical kit, violin and Persian slipper for tobacco - details drawn from stories first published from 1887.
📍 First floor, front room
Holmes’ Bedroom
Character brought to lifeA narrow Victorian room with disguises and case clippings hints at Holmes’s midnight experiments and early starts.
📍 First floor, rear
Mrs Hudson’s Rooms
Domestic side of 221BPeriod furnishings and kitchenware show the boarding-house routines that kept the detective duo fed and briefed.
📍 Second floor
Case Vignettes
Scenes from the canonTableaux reference favourites like ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ (1902) and ‘The Final Problem’ (1893).
📍 Upper floors displays
Baker Street Photo Stop
The 221B momentA Georgian townhouse dressed as 221B offers the essential doorway shot for fans from page, stage and screen.
📍 Entrance door & plate
Opening Hours
🤓 Fun Facts
The museum opened in 1990 in a Georgian townhouse styled as 221B Baker Street.
When Conan Doyle wrote the stories (1887-1927), Baker Street’s numbering didn’t reach 221B; it became a real address later.
For decades, Abbey National bank answered fan letters sent to ‘Sherlock Holmes, 221B’ with a dedicated secretary.
A bronze statue of Sherlock Holmes by John Doubleday was unveiled on Baker Street in 1999.
The deerstalker hat and curved pipe were popularised by illustrator Sidney Paget (1890s) and actor William Gillette (from 1899).
