If you've always wanted to be a detective, now is your chance to be transported into Sherlock Holmes’ London to solve a possible murder in a world filled with innovation and experimentation.
Sherlock Holmes: The Exhibition comes to the Minnesota History Center with interactive crime-solving opportunities, original manuscripts, period artifacts, and investigative tools influenced and used by Sherlock Holmes. The exhibit showcases areas of forensic science that enabled Sherlock Holmes to solve crimes, and brings to life the historic underpinnings of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about the famous British detective.
Sherlock Holmes: The Exhibition opens Thursday,” October 20. Curator Tim Johnson says it will be an immersive experience.
“It will give people an amazing, interactive opportunity to explore Victorian London, to learn all kinds of things about science, and forensics, and toxicology, and ballistics,” says Johnson.
The exhibit also contains many historical artifacts including what is home to the largest collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle items in the world at the University of Minnesota.
“It's a fabulous exhibition that includes over a hundred items from the University of Minnesota's Sherlock Holmes’ Collections,” Johnson says. “It includes also props from some of the popular movies and television shows.”
In the end, Johnson says, if you are clever enough you might just be able to solve the crime.
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