In this video, Jessica the Museum Guide (that’s me!) explores the complicated ethics of Jack the Ripper tourism at the Jack the Ripper Museum in East London.
As a former Ripper tour guide, I have a lot of thoughts on this topic – and, as I feared, the controversial Jack the Ripper Museum celebrates the worst excesses of exploitation. Instead of focusing on the victims, the museum presents a series of dioramas riddled with half-truths, conspiracy theories, and nonsense.
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VIDEO SUMMARY
We spend our time touring through the five rooms of the museum, with plenty of sidebars to talk about Ripperology, exploitation of the poor, antisemitism, women and true crime, commemorating the victims of serial killers, and so much more.
0:00 - Introduction to the Tour
3:08 – Who were the victims of Jack the Ripper?
5:46 – Entering the Museum
6:08 – The Controversies and Protests surrounding the Museum
7:48 - Room 1: Mitre Square
8:58 – Were the Ripper's victims all prostitutes?
11:18 – Jack the Ripper as a Victorian anti-hero
12:25 – Room 2: The Ripper's Flat
14:06 – Thinking about Jack the Ripper and modern serial killers
15:10 – Who do I think was Jack the Ripper?
18:29 – The Stairwell: Sensational Victorian Journalism and Anti-Semitism
20:06 – Room 3: The Detective's Office
22:05 - Women and True Crime
25:02 - Room 4: The Victims' Bedroom
27:28 - The Changing East End
28:01 - Room 5: The Mortuary
30:38 - Final Thoughts
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