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The Musem of Crime is an unusual museum which started life in 1875 - when it was
decided to keep certain items of property seized in connection with crime to instruct the young detectives
in the then relatively new Detective Department of Scotland Yard.
The press then gave this collection of somewhat macabre artefacts the unofficial title of The Black
Museum.
Housing weapons - guns, whips, Knives, burial tools and death masks made of plaster, the masks are of
murderers executed in the first half of the 19th century.
So it has remained now with over a thousand exhibits from the apparently insignificant to the spectacular.

It is not open to the general public for on display are the court exhibits of some of the most remarkable
crimes of the past 115 years.

Exhibits used in the prosecution of criminals as diverse as forgers, spies, terrorists.......and murderers.

1876 CHARLIE PEACE Amateur musician, profesional burglar eventually convicted murderer--oldest exhibit in the museum. 1911 SYDNEY STREET SEIGE Flavour of revolution--The Sydney street seige takes it´s place in history. 1955 RUTH ELLIS Last woman to be hanged in Britain. 1964 JAMES STEEL killed forger extraordinaire!! 1976 SMITH & JONES United States Dollar forgeries. 1976 BANK CLERK MURDER Armed robbery that turned into tragic murder. 1980 IRANIAN SEIGE An ordinary day that ended as a 6 day seige. 1983 PETER ARNE Murder of the famous- An actor murdered for his kindness?

	THE MULLER "HAT". Murder. THE STRATTON BROTHERS The first to be proved by fingerprints. DR. CRIPPEN Caught by wireless telegraph. 1927 MINNIE BONATI The body in the trunk murder. CHRISTIE AND THE RILLINTON PLACEMURDERS. Murder in the West London house 1978 THE UNSOLVED OF GEORGI MARKOV Victim of a poisoned pellet. 1983 DENIS NILSEN The man who killed for company!