London's newly-opened Ripper Museum has garnered a huge amount of controversy since its opening, with its detractors saying that it glorifies violence against museum.

Already, protests have been held outside the museum and its architect has branded it as "salacious, misogynist rubbish" and claimed that he was duped into working on the project.

"The local community was duped, we were duped. They came to us and said they had no money but that this is a real heartfelt project. It is incredibly important to celebrate women in politics in the East End. We really ran with it. We did it at a bargain-basement fee, at cost price because we thought it was a great thing to do."

The museum's founder, a former Google employee, originally intended to open a museum of women's social history in the area. However as the project developed, he opted to turn the museum into one that explored the murders of Jack The Ripper.

Fern Riddell, a historian who works as a consultant on BBC's Ripper Street, recently visited the museum and live-tweeted her experience. Needless to say, she wasn't a fan. At all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's loads more besides as we've only included a handful of her observations, but one thing is telling - this museum is pretty damn gross. The museum has already been targeted for another protest by the Fuck Parade organisers who attacked the Cereal Killer Cafe last weekend. Meanwhile, the Ripper Museum's PR agent defended the museum's content, saying that the museum doesn't glorify violence against women and sex workers.

Going by Fern's photos and appraisal, it looks like pretty cut and dry. What do you think? Have you visited the museum? Let us know in the comments!

 

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