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 crimes.
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