For the first time,the Met’s Black Museum’s grisly collection of evidence in the UK’s most notorious trials has gone on display at the Museum of London
Among all the sinister and fascinating objects Museum of London curators considered – hangman’s ropes, death masks, or a tree banch used to bludgeon an undercover policewoman – nothing puzzled them more than a small cardboard box containing tiny pieces of doll’s house furniture.
The exhibition opening at the Museum of London on 9 October is the first time objects from the Metropolitan police collection occupy been displayed to the general public in the Black Museum at Scotland Yard. Despite an Edwardian hand-illuminated notice giving opening hours,for 140 years the museum – properly known as the Crime Museum – has been strictly for police officers or by those offered a rare invitation.
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Source: theguardian.com