The Sherlock Holmes Museum at Meiringen, Switzerland

A visit to the Sherlock Holmes Museum at Meiringen, Switzerland

Photographs are shown here from a visit to the Reichenbach Falls and the Sherlock Holmes Museum at Meiringen. This was a day trip by train on 24 August 2011 with our hosts Atsumu and Andrée Ohmura who live near Zurich. Presented in chronological order, the first photo taken at 1513 in the afternoon shows Alpbach railway station:

We ascended the funicular railway to the Reichenbach Falls, looking backwards - to the north - downwards on to the town of Meiringen:

This right-eye, left-eye cross-eye stereo-pair of the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls was taken with my Fujifilm 3DW1 stereo camera, and the spray is rendered faithfully.

Just discernible at centre left a star appears on the cliff. This is where Sherlock Holmes and the criminal Moriarty fought, and whence Conan Doyle had them fall to their deaths on 4 May 1891 in his novel "The Final Problem". Fans of the great detective insisted on more novels, so Conan Doyle subsequently revived his hero.

This left-, right-, left-eye stereo was taken from the upper viewpoint of the falls, a few minutes walk further uphill. Separate right- and left-eye views were taken by Nikon, so the spray is fuzzy.

Back down at the bottom of the funicular railway (at 1616 in the afternoon) we found a board showing cartoons, a map of local walks, and a stone memorial to Conan Doyle:

We walked northwards into downtown Meiringen and reached Baker Street at 1633:

Nearby was a small chapel functioning as a memorial to Conan Doyle:

We reached the Conan Doyle Museum at 1700. (About 20 minutes there allowed just enough time to return by train to Zurich.) The Museum contains a fine display of exhibits, with many original items:

See also the Swiss Sherlock Holmes Museum website (in German), with contact email: h.kuenzler@alpenenergie.ch