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SHERLOCK HOLMES BEAR
221b Baker Street Museum in London
This
is our friend Sherlock Holmes Bear. He lives at 221b Baker Street in
London, the
world’s most famous address, depending on whomb
you ask. That’s the address where the Wolld’s First Consulting
Detective Sherlock Holmes live according to the stories written by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes Bear is real and you can visit
him at 221b and even take him home, whether Sherlock Holmes the detective
was real…well, he is to some people. And he won an Emmy award
for his TV show, so he must be. Beginning with “A Study in Scarlet” first
published in a magazine, Breton’s Christmas Annual, then in serialized
form in The Strand magazine in 1887, Sherlock Holmes and his friend
Dr. Watson solved mystery cases all the way until 1927. Much of that
time they lived together at 221b Baker Street, except for some years
when Dr. Watson was married. Conan Doyle got tired of writing Holmes
stories and tried to kill him off once, whih he and his enemy Professor
James Moriarty falling over a waterfall in Switzerland where Conan
Doyle
once took a holiday. But people so badly wanted to read more stories,
Doyle had to bring him back again, with a spinning shadow on the window
curtain of 221b.
Now,
there is a museum at the address in the north section London near the
famous Madame Tussaud’s
Wax Museum. The Sherlock
Holmes Museum London, or at least an exhibit
shows the rooms that Holmes and Watson would have
lived in, recreated with furniture and decorations described in the books.
There are other rooms around also imagined from the books, one is upstairs
in the Sherlock
Holmes Pub in London near the Old Scotland Yard. and one is
in Switzerland, the near the Reichenbach Falls
and the hotel Conan Doyle stayed in Meiringen.
In the 221b address there is a
study
with
Holmes’ famous
deerstalker cap, magnifying glass, Calabash pipe, of course the Persian
slipper with tobacco stuffed in the toe, chemistry equipment and disguises.
Up above on the 2nd floor is Dr. Watson’s bedroom (he was much
neater than Holmes) and on the third floor there are other exhibits and
wax figures of the characters, including Sherlock Holmes and Professor
Moriarty, so you don’t have to pay to see the ones in Mrs. Tussaud’s.
At the front is even a room for Mrs. Hudson. Downstairs next door is
the shop where you can buy stuff, like our friend, Sherlock Holmes Bear
and his friend Dr Watson Bear. Maybe he might solve a mystery for you.
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