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| Jack the Ripper museum sparks backlash after it emerges site originally meant to celebrate women over the past 150 years | Jack the Ripper museum sparks backlash after it emerges site originally meant to celebrate women over the past 150 years |
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| A project billed as the “first women’s museum in the UK” in east London has been unveiled as a site dedicated to the serial killer Jack the Ripper. | A project billed as the “first women’s museum in the UK” in east London has been unveiled as a site dedicated to the serial killer Jack the Ripper. |
| A shop on Cable Street, near to Shadwell station, has been converted into a museum examining the notorious murderer who mutilated female prostitutes in Whitechapel during the 1800s. | A shop on Cable Street, near to Shadwell station, has been converted into a museum examining the notorious murderer who mutilated female prostitutes in Whitechapel during the 1800s. |
| Complete with blood-red lettering, a foreboding black exterior, a skull-and-cross bone, and mysterious silhouette of Ripper, the museum has shocked residents who were told that a centre dedicated to the achievements of women was to open there. | Complete with blood-red lettering, a foreboding black exterior, a skull-and-cross bone, and mysterious silhouette of Ripper, the museum has shocked residents who were told that a centre dedicated to the achievements of women was to open there. |
| In the original planning application for change of use of the building, pictures of suffragettes and Asian women campaigning against racist murders in the 1970s around Brick Lane were included. | In the original planning application for change of use of the building, pictures of suffragettes and Asian women campaigning against racist murders in the 1970s around Brick Lane were included. |
| The application said: “The museum will recognise and celebrate the women of the East End who have shaped history, telling the story of how they have been instrumental in changing society. | The application said: “The museum will recognise and celebrate the women of the East End who have shaped history, telling the story of how they have been instrumental in changing society. |
| “It will analyse the social, political and domestic experience from the Victorian period to the present day.” | “It will analyse the social, political and domestic experience from the Victorian period to the present day.” |
| Community campaigner Jemima Broadbridge told the East London Advertiser that she felt "offended by this museum of the macabre". | Community campaigner Jemima Broadbridge told the East London Advertiser that she felt "offended by this museum of the macabre". |
| “Cable Street had nothing to do with Jack the Ripper—that was in Whitechapel, not here. It’s misleading to tourists," she said. | “Cable Street had nothing to do with Jack the Ripper—that was in Whitechapel, not here. It’s misleading to tourists," she said. |
| She told the newspaper that the street had “a glorious history about resisting Mosley’s fascists in 1936” which the community did not want “muddled up by Ripper mythology”. | She told the newspaper that the street had “a glorious history about resisting Mosley’s fascists in 1936” which the community did not want “muddled up by Ripper mythology”. |
| Former Google diversity chief Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe, who is behind the project, promised “the first women’s museum in the UK” when the planning application was approved, reports the Evening Standard. | Former Google diversity chief Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe, who is behind the project, promised “the first women’s museum in the UK” when the planning application was approved, reports the Evening Standard. |
| “We did plan to do a museum about social history of women but as the project developed we decided a more interesting angle was from the perspective of the victims of Jack the Ripper,” he told the newspaper. | “We did plan to do a museum about social history of women but as the project developed we decided a more interesting angle was from the perspective of the victims of Jack the Ripper,” he told the newspaper. |
| “It is absolutely not celebrating the crime of Jack the Ripper but looking at why and how the women got in that situation in the first place.” | “It is absolutely not celebrating the crime of Jack the Ripper but looking at why and how the women got in that situation in the first place.” |
| The museum will open next Tuesday. | The museum will open next Tuesday. |