Community investigates Sherlock Holmes at Frost Science Museum

In celebration of its fifth anniversary at its downtown Miami location, Frost Science Museum has presented its largest summer exhibition to date, while seeing recording-breaking worthy attendance numbers.

“Sherlock Holmes: The Exhibition,” features detailed stage sets, elaborate Victorian-style exhibits and interactive evidence stations that appeal to dedicated Sherlock enthusiasts, the merely curious and families with children who enjoy playing detective, said Joseph A. Quiñones, Frost Science’s VP of marketing.

“We welcomed nearly 3 million guests since opening in March 2017, which is quite an achievement,” he said. “And, we have not hosted a special exhibition of this size and magnitude before, which also makes this particular exhibition a blockbuster summer exhibit that is really an immersive interactive experience.”

Frost Science at 1101 Biscayne Blvd. has been pacing at about 120% higher foot traffic and attendance numbers compared to the pre-Covid stable year, which is the fiscal year 2019, Mr. Quiñones said.

“And in terms to last year, we’re trending about more than 50% higher,” he said. “This is really the unofficial start to our summer season but over the past month, we’ve been averaging around 1,000 people per weekday and then on the weekends, we get up to about 2,500 in total gate attendance.

Those numbers will increase during the summer when kids are out of school.”

The museum’s planetarium is also offering three shows in anticipation of its fifth birthday, which include Worlds Beyond Earth, Dynamic Earth and Living Worlds

“In the past five years,” Mr. Quiñones said, “we have never seen such pent-up demand for our programs like summer camp, where they are all sold out even before the first week of camp.”