"Black Museum" by Scotland Yard made public.

Closed to outsiders Museum of London Police, which collects evidence of the most notorious and horrendous crimes, is scheduled to make public for free visits, reports The Times. The initiator of change in the status of the so-called "Black Museum" was made by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, who believes that another attraction in the city will attract more tourists.
The museum, which now occupies two rooms in the building of Scotland Yard, kept the evidence in the case of Jack Potroshitelya, models built in a cold stick of weapons, including poisoned umbrella, which by the order of the KGB in 1978, was killed Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov, a pair of binoculars who, in pointing to the sharp blind beholder departing spines and many other exhibits.
Parliament of Great Britain in 1869 allowed to leave some things belonging to prisoners in police custody as visual aids in the teaching of comment. The first examined the collection, which brought him incpektor (Neame), heads of police departments. This happened in 1877. Since then, the number of items has increased significantly, but access to them had only the police.
Scotland Yard - the largest police agency of Great Britain, the headquarters of the police of Greater London. Division, which employs about 30 thousand people, provides the capital and police investigators. In addition, his staff monitor the traffic in London issued a driver's license, and for taxis and buses, dealing with civil defense, registering foreigners. Scotland Yard is conducting an investigation of cases across the country.