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The Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221b Baker Street is the official home of Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson, although the address didn’t formally come into existence until 1990. Well worth a visit if you’re in London. The gift shop is very nice and I treasure my photograph of the sitting room, with the picture of Gordon and the slipper and the jack-knifed correspondence.
I know when I stay in London, I stay at the Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes (well, I can dream). One of the benefits of staying here: “Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes London has teamed up with Murder Mystery Events to offer regular evenings filled with interactive mystery & comedy entertainment!”
The Sherlock Holmes Public House and Restaurant in Westminster, City of London has the reproduction of Holmes’ study created for the Festival of Britain in 1951. “The study can be viewed from both the roof garden and the restaurant, with an entire wall of the study being glass plated to give commanding views from where you are eating.”
In The Musgrave Ritual, we learn that Holmes had rooms “just round the corner from the British Museum,” and he presumably had many reasons to visit the museum. Visitors today can see the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, the Rosetta Stone, the Sutton Hoo treasures and fragments from one of the Seven Wonders of the World. And admission is free.
Someone once asked me what was at the Victoria & Albert Museum and all I could say was “stuff.” The website says: “V&A South Kensington is the world's greatest museum of art and design, with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. Discover 3000 years’ worth of amazing artefacts from many of the world’s richest cultures including ceramics, furniture, fashion, glass, jewellery, metalwork, photographs, sculpture, textiles and paintings.” I should have said “cool stuff” or “lot’s of stuff.” It’s also free.
