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November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If only it had been a clay bust ... #meta
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November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If only it had been a clay bust ... #meta
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Err, that's day 6 isn't it?
November 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Err, that's day 6 isn't it?
Met history is shared across many collections other than our own - for instance, the Albert Medal awarded to PC William Cole for getting a bomb out of the crypt of Westminster Hall 140 years ago is now in the @ukparliament.parliament.uk collection. #Museum30 #sharing #CM150 #BonfireNight
![Page of a scrapbook kept by Inspector Frederick Abberline, best known for the Whitechapel Murders investigation, but also heavily involved in that into the bombs planted by Harry Burton and James Gilbert Cunningham on 24 January 1885, two at the Houses of Parliament and one at the Tower of London.
This page is on display in our current exhibition and shows newspaper courtroom sketches of some of the witnesses (including Abberline himself), "Links in the chain of evidence" (the two trunks and a bag which had contained the devices), Burton and Cunningham themselves, the heads of the prosecution and defence team (the latter being William Quilliam, later the first British convert to Islam), and in the centre a scene of Miss Liveridge testifying at Bow Street Police Court.
The trial later moved to the Old Bailey from 11 to 15 May 1885, where the pair were sentenced to life "for feloniously conspiring with [persons unknown] ... to depose the Queen from her Royal name and style of Queen of Great Britain and Ireland" and on "Other Counts for conspiring to levy war against the Queen, with intent by force and constraint to compel her to change her measures and to intimidate and overawe the Houses of Parliament".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfhf44tj2dhltodlzdvcpgqh/bafkreibhigk4ntnnezbxjx6j6tu64a2xz3o6jyfpno3hbxhtf55xondnnm@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We have 18 binders of sketches by John Worsley, who provided them for the Met & other constabularies from 1969 to 1999. He also created the PC49 comics, artwork for the 1980s 'The Wind in the Willows' TV series, & (as a #WWII naval POW) the dummy 'Albert RN'. #sketchbook #Museum30 #remembrance
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The #eyes definitely have it in this Photo-Fit kit from our collection. Invented by Jacques Penry, it replaced the American Identikit in 1970 and was itself replaced by E-FIT in 1988. This one is on the object shortlist for our #Forensics125 exhibition next year - stay tuned! #CM150 #Museum30
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
This #signage was put up at the Crime Museum under Commissioner Sir Edward Bradford - his first wife Elizabeth Adela Knight was great-niece to Jane Austen. Our collection holds the claws of the tigress which claimed Bradford's left arm at Guna in central India in 1863. #Museum30 #CM150 #Austen250
November 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
We are two Museums (founded in 1875 and 1949), an archive and a reference library, covering the lives of Met officers and staff ever since 1829 and the crimes they have solved. #CM150 #Movember #Museum30 #Introduction
November 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM