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The Jack the Ripper Museum opened in August 2015 in London. The Museum says on its website that "The Jack the Ripper Museum takes visitors back to the dark-alleyways of the dogged East End of London in 1888 – to tell one of the most famous stories in British History. The Jack the Ripper Museum at 12 Cable Street, Whitechapel, offers visitors a fully immersive experience where you can see, touch, smell and feel Jack the Ripper’s London. Housed in an historic Victorian house, visitors step straight into the world of Jack the Ripper and experience his crimes through the eyes of the women who were his victims. It’s educational, fun and scary! The Jack the Ripper Museum is the first in the world to offer an in depth examination of the crimes of Jack the Ripper using original and unique artefacts from the period as well as waxwork recreations of key crime scenes and incredible sets such as Jack the Ripper’s parlour and Mary Jane Kelly’s bedroom. A five-minute walk from the Tower of London, the museum is unique in telling the world’s greatest crime mystery from a totally new perspective - through the lives and deaths of the women who were the Ripper’s victims. Experience the sights, sounds and smells of Victorian London. Shudder as you stand in the recreation of the murder in Mitre Square, imagine what it must have been like to have been Jack planning his next gruesome murder as you recline in his sitting room, perch on Mary Jane Kelly's straw mattress in her bedroom, and feel a spine-tingling sensation as you look upon the Victorian autopsy table in the Whitechapel Morgue - knowing that hundreds of autopsies of men, women and children were performed on it. Another exciting space exploring The Ripper’s heinous crimes, is the recreation of the Lehman Street Police Station, complete with a forensic crime scene board laying out all the evidence against the suspects together with the victim’s crime scenes. Pride of place goes to the actual whistle P. C. Watkins blew to call for help when he found Catherine Eddowes' mutilated body in Mitre Square. You will also see P.C. Watkins’ notebook, handcuffs and the truncheon he was carrying that day – these are the most significant Ripper related items outside The Metropolitan Police's Crime Museum. The Metropolitan Police Crime museum, also known as the Black Museum is not open to the public." There has been plenty of controversy surrounding the museum - mainly surrounding the museum's initial planning application to Tower Hamlets Council which cited "The museum will recognise and celebrate the women of the East End who have shaped history, telling the story of how they have been instrumental in changing society. It will analyse the social, political and domestic experience from the Victorian period to the present day." This led to days of protests outside of the museum by numerous groups. However, in a press statement in September, the museum defended its position by saying ''"The initial, vague idea for the Museum from the beginning was to tell the stories of many different women from the East End, and did include a reference to suffragettes in the initial application. As we developed this idea we felt that it needed a stronger central focus – something to ensure that all of our stories benefited from the Museum having mass appeal. We chose to have this main focus to be on the stories of the victims of a notorious serial killer with connections to the Cable Street area, instead of side-lining them in the way that several other ‘attractions’ do. We felt that it was very powerful to open a Museum which for the first time examines the turbulent history of the East End from the perspective of the most oppressed group in Victorian London, the women who were poor and under privileged, who lived from hand to mouth and were often forced into prostitution. It is from this primary platform that we will offer further opportunities to tell the stories of an array of East End women past and present – their challenges and successes. As Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe explains, "During planning discussions with both our architects and with Tower Hamlets council I disclosed that I had been a Governor of the Museum in Docklands when they held their "Jack the Ripper and the East End" exhibition. I clearly stated that the Museum I wanted to build would be based to a large extent on this exhibition. Indeed a number of images from that exhibition were used to illustrate the planning application submitted"'' In October (2015), further protests were threatened by Class War - an anti-gentrification organisation that had previously attacked The Cereal Killer Cafe a week before. The museum's Halloween event in 2015 also saw controversy - with the museum inviting visitors to "meet Jack the Ripper" and to have a "selfie with one of his victims". In October 2015, the museum was awarded 'World's Creepiest Museum" by Culture Cheat Sheet. ==References== *http://www.jacktherippermuseum.com/ *http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jul/29/museum-billed-as-celebration-of-london-women-opens-as-jack-the-ripper-exhibit *http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/23/jack-the-ripper-museum-halloween-selfies-shameful-disgusting_n_8370866.html *http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/jack-ripper-museum-offers-chance-10314609 *http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11950779/Jack-the-Ripper-museum-Halloween-event-selfies-with-murdered-woman.html *http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/first-look-inside-londons-controversial-jack-the-ripper-museum-a3091651.html *http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/28/cereal-killer-cafe-protestors-plan-target-jack-the-ripper-museum *http://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/10-creepy-museums-to-visit-this-halloween.html/?a=viewall 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack the Ripper Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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