Qualla: Crime Museum https://qualla.com/crime-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/crime-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Crime Museum https://qualla.com/crime-museum Crime Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/crime-museum/ Photo credit Metropolitan Police, Public domain. There is a museum in central London with more than 500 exhibits, each one kept at a constant 17 degrees Celsius. You cannot buy a ticket. You cannot book a tour. Unless you are a serving police officer, a lawyer involved in an ongoing case, a member of the royal family, or a similarly vetted VIP, you cannot get in at all. The Crime Museum sits in the basement of New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, and almost no one outside the Met has ever seen it. The exhibits include the ricin pellet that killed a Bulgarian dissident on Waterloo Bridge, the noose used to execute the last woman hanged in Britain, and Dennis Nilsen's actual stove. It is, by some distance, the strangest museum in London.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/crime-museum-wp/gcpu-crime-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Crime Museum: Origins in a Property Room https://qualla.com/crime-museum/ Photo credit régine debatty, CC BY-SA 2.0. The collection began as a filing problem. The Forfeiture Act 1870 gave the police authority to keep, rather than return, items used in crimes. Within a few years they had so many items that an Inspector called Percy George Neame decided to organise them. In 1874 he started gather...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/crime-museum-wp/gcpu-crime-museum-origins-in-a-property-room.mp3 0:06 2 full Crime Museum: Suicide and Scandal https://qualla.com/crime-museum/ Photo credit régine debatty, CC BY-SA 2.0. Neame retired on the last day of 1901. Six months later, on a June morning in 1902, Chief Inspector Arthur Fair and another officer arrived at his front door to ask him about "a few things in his accounts which they could not understand with reference to money seized at gaming ho...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/crime-museum-wp/gcpu-crime-museum-suicide-and-scandal.mp3 0:06 3 full Crime Museum: An Index of Cruelty https://qualla.com/crime-museum/ Photo credit régine debatty, CC BY-SA 2.0. What is in there is hard to absorb. The hangman's nooses include the one used to execute Ruth Ellis in 1955, the last woman hanged in Britain, alongside the revolver she used to shoot her lover David Blakely. There are death masks made of criminals executed at Newgate Prison, acq...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/crime-museum-wp/gcpu-crime-museum-an-index-of-cruelty.mp3 0:06 4 full Crime Museum: The Bulgarian Umbrella https://qualla.com/crime-museum/ Photo credit régine debatty, CC BY-SA 2.0. Some exhibits read like fiction. The ricin pellet that killed Georgi Markov in 1978 is the size of the head of a pin. Markov was a Bulgarian dissident writer working for the BBC World Service. While he was waiting for a bus on Waterloo Bridge, a stranger jabbed him in the leg wit...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/crime-museum-wp/gcpu-crime-museum-the-bulgarian-umbrella.mp3 0:06 5 full Crime Museum: A Museum That Travels https://qualla.com/crime-museum/ Photo credit régine debatty, CC BY-SA 2.0. For most of its history the Crime Museum has been a rumour. Orson Welles hosted a 1951 BBC radio series called The Black Museum that turned individual exhibits into dramatised half-hour stories. A 1958 horror film called Horrors of the Black Museum borrowed the name. Charlie Broo...

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