DC -- Penn Qtr -- Natl Museum of Crime & Punishment (575 7th St NW):
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- Description of Pictures: The museum was closing two days after these pictures were taken. I had visited the museum several years ago. Photography was allowed without any apparent restrictions and I did one of my normal obsessive jobs of photographing everything. Several years later, I got a cease and desist letter from them saying I had violated something. I could have protested I guess but decided it wasn't worth it so I hid the pages. But Google had cached the pages and they showed up in a later search at which point I got a really heated email from them. So I had to physically delete the pictures from my site. I can't say I'm heart-broken than they're closing.
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- CRIME_150928_07.JPG: What are you really bringing back with you?
Help protect endangered species.
Think twice before you buy souvenirs.
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- CRIME_150928_11.JPG: Crime Museum
We're Closing
Due to unforeseen circumstances the Crime Museum will be closing its doors to the public. Our final day of business is:
September 30, 2015
Programs that will continue after September 30th:
* Assassinations in the Capital Walking Tour
* Traveling Forensic Educational Programs
* Team Building
Thank you for your support.
- AAA "Gem": AAA considers this location to be a "must see" point of interest. To see pictures of other areas that AAA considers to be Gems, click here.
- Wikipedia Description: National Museum of Crime & Punishment
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Museum of Crime & Punishment is a privately owned museum dedicated to the history of criminology and penology in America. It is located in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C., half a block south of the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station. The museum, which opened in May 2008, was built by Orlando businessman John Morgan in partnership with John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted, at a cost of US$21 million.
More than 700 artifacts in 28,000 square feet (2,600 m2) of exhibition space relate the history of crime and the consequences of crime in America and in American popular culture. The museum features exhibits on colonial crime, pirates, Wild West outlaws, gangsters, the Mob, mass murderers, and white collar criminals. Twenty-eight interactive stations include the high-speed police chase simulators used in the training of law enforcement officers, and a Firearms Training Simulator (F.A.T.S.) similar to that utilized by the FBI.
Museum Galleries:
The main floor is devoted to a staged crime scene investigation where a murder has taken place. Visitors to the museum are guided through the process of solving the crime through forensic science techniques, including ballistics, blood analysis, finger printing and foot printing, and dental and facial reconstruction.
The museum includes a mock police station with a booking room, celebrity mug shots, police line-up, lie detector test, prisoners' art and self-created devices for injury and escape, and a re-creation of the jail cell of Al Capone at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. A capital punishment room offers a re-creation of a guillotine and gas chamber, along with an authentic lethal injection machine from the state prison in Smyrna, Delaware, and an electric chair from the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville which was used for 125 executions.
The crime-fighting gallery draws attention to such notables as founding FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the legendary law enforcement agent Eliot Ness. It also includes the uniforms, firearms, and restraining equipment of law enforcement officers, as well as exhibits on bomb squad and night vision technologies.
America's Most Wanted Studio:
The museum also serves as the television studio for America's Most Wanted, a long-running television series that dramatizes unsolved crimes. The television program has led to the capture of more than 1,000 fugitives (16 from the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives) due to the crime tips that are reported by the public when criminals are profiled. Surrounding the studio are exhibits on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and McGruff the Crime Dog, as well as a Cross Match Technologies station for child finger printing.
- Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.)
I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com
and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
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