Jack the Ripper Museum

The Jack the Ripper Museum is a museum and tourist attraction that opened in August 2015 in Cable Street, London. It purports to recreate the east London setting in which the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders took place in 1888. It exhibits some original artifacts from the period as well as waxwork recreations of crime scenes and sets including the bedroom of Mary Jane Kelly, one of the victims. Its exhibits includes the whistle used by police constable Edward Watkins to summon help when he discovered the body of Catherine Eddowes, another victim. It also has PC Watkins' notebook, handcuffs and truncheon and a recreation of the police station in Leman Street where detectives attempted to identify the murderer. The museum was founded by Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe, a former head of diversity for search engine Google's EMEA operations and governor of the Museum of London Docklands.