Museum meant to celebrate women instead devotes itself to Jack the Ripper

A museum dedicated to Jack the Ripper in London has provoked anger, because it was originally intended to celebrate women’s history.

Jack the Ripper Museum Cable Street Whitechapel. Where women have been reduced to a red smudge pic.twitter.com/SJ0mTTVdIH

— Lisa Mckenzie (@redrumlisa) July 28, 2015

The site on Cable Street in London was originally earmarked for a space to celebrate the suffragettes and women from the East End of London.