Inside London's new Jack the Ripper Museum
Tour London's new museum dedicated to its most infamous figure: 19th-century serial killer Jack the Ripper. The museum stirred up a cloud of mystery after misbilling itself, but that doesn't seem to be drawing visitors.
Planned women's museum becomes Ripper exhibition
The Jack the Ripper museum in London was initially billed as an museum on local women's history. The East End's legendary serial killer famously murdered mainly female prostitutes living in London's slums. The exhibition higlights the victims, but nothing more on women's circumstances in 19th-century London.
Being there
Reconstructing one of the crime scenes, the Jack the Ripper Museum tries to transport visitors to some of the darkest chapters of the Victorian Age.
Methods of murder
Some of Jack the Ripper's "tools" are on show at the museum. The killer is said to have slit his victims' throats before cutting out their organs.
Writing on the wall
According to legend, mysterious murderer allegedly left this message at one of his crime scenes.
Respect for the victims
Russell Edwards, who in 2014 presented evidence that Jack the Ripper was Polish immigrant Aaron Kosminski, told DW he thinks the museum doesn't do justice to the victims of the serial killer - and especially their descendants. These three victims were first named in the British press in 1988: Annie Chapman, Mary Ann Nicholls and Elizabeth Stride.
Frequented by a murderer
With or without a museum, Jack the Ripper remains an attraction in London's East End, with daily walking tours taking visitors to places where the killer had allegedly picked up his victims - such as this pub.