Scotland Yard’s ‘Black Museum’ on Notorious Crimes Opens in UK

This exhibition, which opens 9 October, is the first opportunity for the public to look at the contents of the metropolitan police crime museum, founded in 1875 as an educational tool for officers. The collection is a trove of macabre mementoes which range from the working tools of a violin-playing 19th-century cat burglar to a hangman’s “execution box” containing ropes, sandbags and restraining straps. It also celebrates the brains, bravery and scientific advances that helped catch perpetrators and solve c