1951 Sherlock Holmes Exhibition: the exhibition hall

'Our chambers were always full of chemicals and of criminal relics which had a way of wandering into unlikely positions, and of turning up in the butter-dish or in even less desirable places. But his papers were my great crux. He had a horror of destroying documents.'

(The Musgrave Ritual)

Explore the exhibition:

The exhibition was on the first floor of Abbey House. The visitor ascended 23 steps, six more than the famous flight which Watson saw but did not observe. The first room was a large room with show-cases, similar to a museum display, as shown in the photo above. Here were displayed the personal relics of the famous detective and of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Having studied all this, the visitor went through a curtained archway, to find themselves staring straight into Mrs. Hudson's first-floor front room, a detailed reconstruction of a late Victorian sitting-room, with all of Holmes' and Watson's possessions strewn about. See a photo of this room.

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