Sherlock Holmes: the Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die
Entrancing exhibition at the Museum of London looking at the fictional character of Sherlock Holmes, how he came about, the world he lived in and how he has been represented. From the entrance through a bookcase I was completely engaged with this exhibition. It starts by looking at the origins of the character and how Conan Doyle came to write the books and stories as well as how they were received and became popular. There was an interesting section on how the illustrations of Sidney Paget helped to establish the character in the public imagination and his friendship with the author. My favourite section looked at the London of the time through maps, photographs and paintings. I loved three old maps with pinned string showing you the journeys around London taken I particular stories and a time lapse film of what those journeys looked like now. The exhibition built up a real sense of how life at the time the books were written what changing and how Holmes used all the...