- For museums focused on African Americans, see Category:African American museums
The Black Museum of Scotland Yard is a famed collection of criminal memorabilia kept at the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police in London, England. New Scotland Yard or Scotland Yard, informally known as The Yard and NSY, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible In the sociological field, crime is the breach of a rule or Law for which some governing authority or force may ultimately prescribe a Punishment A souvenir (from French, for memory) memento or keepsake is an object a traveler brings home for the memories associated with "Metropolitan Police" redirects here See also Metropolitan police. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Established in 1948, it was intended to help the police in their study of crime and criminals. Police are agents or agencies usually of the executive, empowered to enforce the law and to effect public and social order through the legitimatized use of force Despite being intended primarily for use by the police, the public could see it by special arrangement. The name "Black Museum" was a nickname; the collection was formally referred to as the "Museum. " The term was also applied to a museum of failed engineering components collected by David Kirkaldy at his testing works at 99 Southwark Street, Southwark, London. David Kirkaldy (1820 – 1897 was a Scottish engineer who pioneered the testing of materials as a service to engineers during the Victorian period Southwark or The Borough is an area of south-east London in the London Borough of Southwark, situated 1 The latter museum was destroyed in the London Blitz. The Blitz was the sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941 in World War II.
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The exhibits included many death masks made of executed criminals, as well as collections of weapons, tools used by burglars, and items that had been evidence in crimes. In Western cultures a death mask is a Wax or Plaster cast made of a person's face following Death. A weapon is a Tool used either in Hunting, or attack or defence in Combat for the purpose of subduing enemy personnel or to destroy enemy weapons Evidence in its broadest sense includes anything that is used to determine or demonstrate the Truth of an assertion In 1951, Orson Welles produced a radio program for the BBC called The Black Museum, inspired by the catalogue of items on display. George Orson Welles (May 6 1915 – October 10 1985 was an Academy Award -winning director, writer actor and producer for film stage radio and television Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. The Black Museum was a 1951 radio crime drama program produced by Harry Alan Towers for the BBC and based on real-life cases from the files of Scotland Each week, he featured an item from the museum and produced a dramatization of the story surrounding the object to the macabre delight of audiences. The American radio writer Wyllis Cooper also wrote and directed a similar anthology for NBC that ran at the same time in the U. Wyllis Oswald Cooper ( January 26, 1899 - June 22, 1955) was an American writer and producer The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's S. Called Whitehall 1212, for the telephone number of Scotland Yard, the program debuted on November 18, 1951, hosted by Chief Superintendent John Davidson, curator of the Black Museum.
The Museum was moved to New Scotland Yard in the 1980s and was subject to substantial renovation in recent years. New Scotland Yard or Scotland Yard, informally known as The Yard and NSY, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible The "Crime Museum", as it is now called, currently resides in Room 101 at New Scotland Yard and consists of two sections. The first, a replica of the original museum contains a substantial selection of melee weapons, some overt, some concealed, including shotgun umbrellas and numerous walking stick swords. This room also contains a selection of hangman's nooses including that used to perform the UK's last ever execution and notes allegedly written by Jack the Ripper. The newer section of the museum contains many exhibits from 20th century crimes, notable inclusions include the fake De Beers diamond from the Millennium Dome heist and Dennis Nilsen's stove. For the similarly named American politician see Dennis Nielsen. The museum can be visited by Police officers from any of the country's police forces by prior appointment, though not without difficulty due to its popularity.
The Black Museum of criminal artefacts also hosts over 500 items preserved at a constant temperature of sixty-two degrees, a special place is reserved for a set of printing plates, a remarkable series of forged bank-notes, and a cunningly hollowed out kitchen door once used to conceal some of them, once belonging to "Charles Black" - The most prolific Counterfeiter in the Western Hemisphere. Currency counterfeiting can sap its confidence by undermining its economy, as Hitler realised when he ordered the production of famous "white fivers" with which he planned to flood Britain during World War II.
Trivia
- There is a fictional Black Museum, inspired by the actual one, inside the Grand Hall of Justice in the Judge Dredd comic strip. The Grand Hall of Justice of Mega-City One is a fictional building in the Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD. For the 1995 film see Judge Dredd (film. For the Reggae / Ska performer see Judge Dread.
Further reading
- Ohmart, Ben. It's That Time Again. " (2002) (Albany: BearManor Media) ISBN 0-9714570-2-6
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