A Visit to Sherlock Holmes

Let's face it, the Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221b Baker Street in the Marylebone district of London is unarguably a tourist trap. Yet one no devotee of the stories could resist.


Inquisitive schoolgirl: "When was Sherlock Holmes born?"
Curator: "He's a fictional character, so he wasn't born."


Detecting equipment.


Holmes kept his tobacco in the Persian slipper over the fireplace.

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More paraphernalia.


A scene from "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual."


"The Man with the Twisted Lip."


Holmes always liked to keep a souvenir of his cases. In this instance, the dreaded Hound of the Baskervilles.