The Exhibition

Sherlock Holmes and the Clocktower Mystery Exhibition

Sherlock Holmes and the Clocktower Mystery is a highly interactive and wildly entertaining murder-mystery that will test visitor’s powers of observation and deductive reasoning. Visitors will need a thinking cap and deerstalker to solve this baffling mystery. The exhibit is ideal for older children and adults and is especially suitable for family or group participation.

As visitors enter the exhibit, they find themselves transported back in time into Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Victorian London. The darkened exhibition spaces are filled with the sounds of hansom cabs, street vendors and distant foghorns. With pencil and exhibit guide in hand visitors set off to follow the story of the Clocktower Mystery as told by Dr. Watson himself!

The mystery is told in eight “chapter” sets each representing a different location. The first is the inside of the clocktower where a murder has taken place. The other seven sets range from a seamy dockside garret to Conan Doyle’s elegant study. While walking through the sets, visitors are given clues to the mystery, carefully placed as physical evidence amongst the many period objects in the room, hand-written police reports, overheard sound interviews, printed summaries of the events and even telltale odors. Each scene is laden with clues and “red herrings.”

Once visitors think they have solved the mystery and know the name of the murderer, they enter into the study of the Victorian detective himself, Sherlock Holmes, (who is played by a live actor). The visitor’s conclusions are discussed, and the mystery is solved in a dramatic finale.

Visitors to the exhibition are exposed to reading, deductive reasoning and physical sciences and are given a painless lesson in the scientific method of problem solving. Careful observation of sights sounds and smells as well as intellectual probing are required to become a master sleuth. The exhibit is “turn-key” and comes complete with all walls, furniture, decorative and architectural elements, instructions, script, clues, smells, lights, a live actor and sounds to make a successful exhibit.

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