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The Sherlock Holmes Museum Презентацию по английскому языку выполнил ученик 6 класса Валерий Шайманов Проверил учитель английского языка МБОУ «Малокармалинская СОШ» Измуков Максим Геннадьевич

The Sherlock Holmes Museum

The Sherlock Holmes Museum is one of the most popular tourist attractions in London. The museum is interesting for its interior, which is exactly reproduced from the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The four-story building was built in 1815. The structure is a reflection of the Victorian style, and also represents an important architectural and historical value of Great Britain

Where the Sherlock Holmes Museum is located: the history of the most famous address

• The Sherlock Holmes Museum is located in the Westminster district of London at 221b, Baker street. According to the stories, it was at this address from 1881 to 1904 that the famous detective Holmes and his faithful partner, Dr. Watson, lived. That's just at the time of the release of the works of the house with such a number simply did not exist. Technically, it does not exist today, the real number of the building is 239. The sign "221b, Baker street" was attached to the museum only in 2002, 12 years after its opening.Since the 30s of the last century, people have been writing letters to the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes. Initially, the post office delivered them to the Abbey National building community, which was located at 215-229 Baker Street. By the way, Abbey National has worked here for over 70 years, from 1932 to 2002. The number of letters addressed to Holmes was so large that Abbey National decided to respond to them, noting that Sherlock Holmes is retired and retired.In 1990, when the museum was created, a company was registered under the name "221b Baker Street", and the authorities managed to obtain the registration of the corresponding legal address. This served as a legitimate reason to hang a sign with the house number indicated in the stories of Conan Doyle. Since then, the letters have been delivered to the museum

Interior of the Sherlock Holmes Museum apartment

As we have already noted, the interior and its details fully correspond to the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. On the ground floor of the museum there is a small entrance hall, a cash register and a gift shop that sells accessories related to the plots of detective stories.

On the second floor are the bedroom and living room of Sherlock Holmes, where he received his clients. The living room-study has a sofa, a dining table, and a fireplace. From the details here you can see a Turkish shoe with tobacco, a violin, a cap, and even letters attached with a penknife to the fireplace shelf. Also, the creators of the museum tried to work on the monogram of Queen Victoria (VR), which the detective "shot" from a revolver in the "Rite of the House of Musgrave".

On the third floor is Mrs. Hudson's bedroom, as well as Dr. Watson's room. Guests can get acquainted with newspapers, paintings and photographs of the last century, appreciate the collection of medical books, as well as the Watson army revolver.The fourth floor is reserved for a small wax museum. In addition to the main characters, here you can see the professional beggar Neville St. Clair, Professor Moriarty, pawnbroker Jabez Wilson and, of course, the hound of the Baskervilles.In the Sherlock Holmes museum, you can not only take photos and shoot videos, but also sit in the chair of the most famous detective of England in the 19th century.After a walk through the museum, you can visit Hudson's Old English Restaurant, which serves English tea with cream.

Sitting room on 1st floor of the museum

The address 221B was the subject of a protracted dispute between the museum and the nearby  Abbey National  building. Since the 1930s, the  Royal Mail  had been delivering mail addressed to  Sherlock Holmes  to the Abbey National Bank, [6]  and they had employed a special secretary to deal with such correspondence. The museum went through several appeals for such mail to be delivered to it, on the grounds that it was the most appropriate organisation to respond to the mail, rather than the bank whose primary business was to lend money out on interest. Although these initiatives were all unsuccessful, the issue was finally resolved in 2002 when the Abbey National vacated its headquarters after seventy years, and the mail is currently delivered to the museum.

History of the Museum

We know from the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson lived at 221b Baker Street between 1881 and 1904. But at the time of writing, there was no such address in London. When Baker Street was extended north (where Upper Baker Street used to be), the house became one of the buildings of the Abbey National Building Society (otherwise known as the bank).Many letters from fans of Holmes came to this organization, and they were forced to hire a special person who will sort out this correspondence. Then this house was still assigned an address corresponding to the literature, which causes some confusion among pedantic Englishmen.The house, which houses the museum, was built in 1815 and is protected by the government as a cultural and architectural heritage. Interestingly, rooms were rented in this house from 1860 to 1934, which corresponds to the period of residence of fictional characters in the books of Arthur Conan Doyle. It is believed that Sherlock Holmes is a collective image, but Dr. Watson is a very real person who lived on Baker Street.True, the real person was not a doctor, but a dental technician, but he lived with a man named Holmes. Perhaps the writer himself knew and for some reason decided to describe John Watson. In general, there are quite a lot of stories surrounding these characters, so fans of Sherlock Holmes stories can still argue about the prototypes of the characters.The museum was opened in 1990 when the Sherlock Holmes International Association bought the house. They did not have to change much in the interior, as the furniture was typically Victorian, as in the works about Sherlock Holmes.

On the third floor you can see the room of Dr. Watson and the room of the hostess-Mrs. Hudson, who is always present in the life of the great detective. By the way, it is a nice woman in a costume from the time of Queen Victoria – Mrs. Hudson will meet and guide you through the rooms of the museum.

Bronze bust of Holmes in the museum

In Mrs. Hudson's room there is a bronze bust of the detective, and in Dr. Watson's bedroom there is a lot of medical literature and other items mentioned in the books.

We are met by a maid. To be honest, the surprise almost made me shit my pants. She came around the corner like a ghost, by God... Still the stairs creak so...

On the second floor are the living room (facing Baker Street) and the adjoining Holmes room (facing the courtyard).Here it is :

Somehow I can't believe that this is the house of a non-existent person... In general, the Sherlock Museum should be considered as a museum of a typical London dwelling of the late 19th century.The things here are genuine collected. Well, as we have in the Lenin Reserve, in Ulyanovsk.

And here is the famous living room, where the only things missing are the two parts of Holmes and Watson in their chairs. I sat there with pleasure and even smoked a pipe. I feel like I'm in a movie.

The rooms are really small. In one of the stories, Conan Doyle describes the scene of a client's visit: "A man entered the office, who was so huge that he filled almost the entire small room."Are you still crying because you have a small apartment? :) In the best houses in London, even less :)Matches :