Sherlock Holmes Museum

Grab your deerstalker and journey into the world of Sherlock Holmes on a guided walking tour in London. Explore places featured in the books, real sites that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle, and locations featured in film and TV adaptations of the detective's great adventures. Begin the tour at the very place where Holmes and Watson first meet and continue to gentlemen’s clubs and grand hotels featured in some of the novels and short stories. Discover the London that inspired Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle. Learn more about Doyle's original inspiration for the adventures of Sherlock Holmes from your expert guide. Discover how the stories have been adapted throughout the years and re-interpreted for contemporary audiences. Visit many of the film and TV locations that have been featured in famous screen adaptations with Jeremy Brett, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Robert Downey Jr. Along the way you will have plenty of opportunities to take pictures and see the locations up-close.

Start with a walking tour of the history, culture, and legends of one of Europe’s best-loved cities. Head through Green Park to Buckingham Palace, watch the world-famous Changing of the Guard ceremony (10am tour on Mon/Wed/Fri/Sun only). Head to Westminster, see Downing Street, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, and the Houses of Parliament. Go to the London Bridge area to see Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, HMS Belfast, Tower Bridge, and the Tower of London. See 30 sights in one day, including: • Buckingham Palace • Trafalgar Square • Changing of the Guard • Big Ben • Downing Street • Westminster Abbey • Whitehall • Houses of Parliament • London Eye • Tower Bridge • Tower of London • HMS Belfast • The Shard After your tour, visit the world-famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, who lived at 221b Baker Street according to the stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Mr. Holmes shared his place with his loyal friend and colleague Dr. Watson. The house is protected by the government due to the special architectural and historical interest. The first-floor study overlooking Baker Street is faithfully maintained for posterity and just as it was kept by Mrs. Hudson in Victorian Times.

If you're a fan of all things Sherlock Holmes, then this is the tour for you, combining 3 hours of walking past the famous sights of Westminster with a visit to the fascinating Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221b Baker Street. Before heading to the museum, you'll meet your friendly local guide in Green Park to begin a fun 3-hour tour of Westminster. Along the way, you'll see many of London's iconic sights, including Buckingham Palace, Downing Street, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, The London Eye and Parliament Square. You can even see the Changing of the Guard (10am tour on Mon/Wed/Fri/Sun only.)! Afterwards, your guide will direct you to the underground so you can travel to Baker Street, where you'll enter a museum dedicated to the great detective. Take as much time as you like looking at Victorian objects and exhibits related to all of Sherlock Holmes’ most famous cases! 20 sights in a 3 hour London tour plus entry to the Sherlock Holmes Museum.

A full tour of London to include the iconic sites of the Tower of London and Tower bridge, Saint Paul's Cathedral, Big Ben and of course Buckingham Palace. Our lunch stop is up to you: perhaps the bustling Borough Market with its street food from all around world or maybe fish and chips by a riverside pub from where "The Mayflower" set sail for the American colonies is more to your taste. On this tour we take in all of London's greatest sites - and much more. Highlights include Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park, Harrods department store, Marble Arch, The Beatles' "Abbey Road", Sherlock Holmes museum, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Big Ben, Tower Bridge, Saint Paul's Cathedral and much more. Other sites we may want to see off the beaten track include Leadenhall Market, instantly recognisable to Harry Potter fans. Or how about the cobbled streets and warehouses of Wapping to hear stories about the age of sail and pirates? There are great vistas to be had on our tour as well, whether it be the view of Canary Wharf from Greenwich Observatory or a view across to the city of London from Primrose Hill. Whatever your wants we're here to fulfill them.

Enjoy a fun-packed 3 hour tour by iconic London black cab and follow in the footsteps of Shakespeare, The Beatles, Sherlock Holmes, and drive past James Bond filming locations. Alas, poor Yorick will not be joining you, but you will get to see where the Bard – aka William Shakespeare – lived, wandered, and possibly drank! All of this may be elementary when you stop at 221b Baker Street – aka the home of Sherlock Holmes. See where Holmes’s creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle really did live and practice medicine. Follow clues across London, taken from the books and films. You’ll be shaken and stirred as you enter the world of James Bond shooting locations. Visit the creator Ian Fleming’s house, the home of MI5 and MI6, and locations from famous Bond movies. With all those spies, you would think you were back in the USSR. But you are not; you are on the Beatles section of your tour. Travel back to ‘60s swinging London in the footsteps of the Fab Four, and discover where they lived, worked, played - and probably drank!

Take a look at London through the eyes of Sherlock Holmes on this guided walking tour. Discover locations from the original short stories and novels as well as the film and TV adaptations. Explore the history of the texts and find out behind-the-scenes secrets. Begin by walking to locations from the original short stories and novels, and hear how Sherlock's creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, used the London that he knew and loved to create the dangerous, crime-filled, and fascinating London Sherlock Holmes inhabits. See the library where Dr Watson borrows books on Chinese pottery in "The Adventure Of The Illustrious Client", the Charing Cross hotel where Irene Adler stays at in "A Scandal In Bohemia", and the restaurant on the Strand, which was a favorite of both Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his great fictional consulting detective. Continue on to the famous London locations from the BBC TV series "Sherlock", and Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes" films starring Robert Downey Jr. This includes the Diogenes Club and the 221B Baker St flat from the series Sherlock, Lord Blackwood's prison cell from the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes films, and several other film and TV locations linked to the various versions of Sherlock Holmes that have graced the silver screen. Learn how Sherlock Holmes has gone on to become the most portrayed fictional character in history and how movies of the great detective were hugely popular in Russia during the Cold War. Then, visit Bart's Hospital, the medical school where Dr. John Watson trained as a surgeon, with a former medical student of the school. Whilst at Barts, learn why Sir Arthur Conan Doyle chose this medical institution as Dr. Watson's alma mater and what it's like to study at the oldest hospital in Europe. Finally, head to Baker Street. While at Baker Street, discover why Conan Doyle chose 221B Baker Street as Sherlock Holmes' address, who the real Baker Street regulars were (and how they secured an Allied victory during the Second World War), and how the Sherlock Holmes Museum ended up in a fight with an international bank over the rights to Sherlock's mail. End your tour opposite the Sherlock Holmes Museum, so you can continue to explore Sherlock's London before visiting the Sherlock Holmes Museum itself.

Tour London in hot pursuit of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, and his sidekick, Dr. Watson. The 3-hour tour by iconic London taxi takes in all the main sights associated with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his fictional creation, as well as locations of classic Holmes films. You will visit 221B Baker Street, Holmes’s London address and the site of the Sherlock Holmes Museum. Your driver will tell a lively story as you tour, not just of Sherlock Holmes and the crimes he solved, but of real life detectives and London's “bobbies” (police force). Stop for photo opportunities outside Scotland Yard. Visit the London home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. And find out how and who he based the Holmes character on. Break for libations at the Sherlock Holmes pub, where representations of his Baker Street rooms are displayed. A new TV series of Sherlock is due in 2013 and filming will take place from March until the summer. So, grab your deerstalker and pipe, book your tour now, and see if you might bump into the stars during filming.