The museum has a rich collection of skulls, 12.5-cm human intestines, wax figures, preserved organs and bodies. One of the most curious exhibits is the skeleton of a man who suffered from a rare disease. New bones were formed in place of his bruises. He himself bequeathed his body to the museum before his death.

Of the wax figures, Madame Dimanche is the most popular. In her old age, the woman grew a long horn on her forehead. Its length was 20 centimeters. It happened in the middle of the 19th century, but even then the operation to remove the strange growth was successful.

The museum presents a huge number of examples of birth of Siamese twins and congenital abnormalities. Also visitors can observe a variety of strange tumors, successful examples of amputations from the distant past, severe wounds, in which a person could live for many years and a variety of severe diseases, which doctors have already managed to win or are just going to. Fans of medicine will appreciate this institution, because it was originally conceived for the education of medical professionals. But other visitors will be truly shocked by what they see.

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We should note right away that the Washington spy museum is not the only one in the world. There is another one in Finland (Tampere), but it does not compare to the U.S. one. Washington has the world’s largest collection of spy artifacts ever assembled.

At the International Spy Museum, you can do more than just see photos of famous spies and read or listen to their biographies and watch a movie. Here you can see more than 600 exhibits – items formerly belonging to and seized from the spies. These include hidden video cameras, eavesdropping devices, an umbrella with a syringe containing deadly poison (just like in the movie Umbrella Shot), a lipstick pistol, sunglasses with a built-in video camera and other spy gadgets. There’s also a shooting car.

Note at once that almost a quarter of the museum is devoted to the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War (an entire exhibition hall), and another quarter is devoted to the best spy of all time – Agent 007,” according to www.usa.one. The rest of the museum presents to your attention a variety of interesting facts about the lives of spies and their work.

But that is not all. The museum constantly hosts various interactive exhibitions, where you can explore, touch and experience everything. You can easily imagine yourself as a spy and crawl through, for example, an air vent, or play in a spy quest, check out yourself how bugs work and much more.

Museum Exhibit

The museum’s collection consists of more than 600 artifacts. It is the largest collection of international espionage artifacts ever placed on public display. Many of the museum’s exhibits are now on public display for the first time. The spy items on display in the museum highlight the work of famous spies and key acts of espionage, and help bring to life the strategy and methods of spying in world history.
One of the museum’s halls is devoted to the history of Soviet and later Russian intelligence.
The mission of the International Spy Museum is to educate the public about espionage, to tell the story of spies’ activities in a compelling way, and to promote understanding of the important role of espionage and its impact on current historical events.

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The Crime Museum is a private museum dedicated to the history of criminology and phenology in the United States. It is found in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C., half a block south of the Galleria Place station. The museum opened in May 2008 and was built by Orlando businessman John Morgan in collaboration with John Walsh, host of America’s Most Wanted, at a cost of $21 million. Unlike most museums in Washington, D.C., the Crime Museum is a commercial enterprise.

The more than 700 exhibits in the exhibit space connect the history of crime and its consequences, in America and American popular culture. The museum shows exhibitions on colonial crime, pirates, Wild West criminals, gangsters, the Crowd, serial killers and white-collar criminals. Twenty-eight interactive stations include high-speed police pursuit simulators used in law enforcement training and a Firearms Training Simulator (F.A.T.S.) similar to that used by the FBI.

Galleries

The first floor is devoted to a mock crime scene investigation where a murder took place. Visitors to the museum are guided through the process of solving the crime through forensic techniques including ballistics, blood testing, finger and toe printing and dental and facial reconstruction.

The museum includes a false police station with an order room, celebrity photos, a police line, a lie detector test, prisoner art and self-created wound and rescue devices and a recreation of the Al Capone prison cell at East State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. The Death Penalty Room offers recreations of the guillotine and gas chamber, along with an authentic lethal injection machine from the state prison in Smyrna, Delaware and the electric chair from Tennessee State Prison in Nashville, which was used for 125 executions.

The crime-fighting gallery draws attention to such luminaries as the foundation of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Edgar Hoover and legendary law enforcement agent Eliot Ness. It also includes uniforms, firearms and equipment of law enforcement officers’ limitations, and shows on night-vision technology and a squadron of bombers. There are no exhibits dealing with police misconduct or the beliefs of an innocent.

America’s Most Wanted Studio

The museum also served as the television studio for America’s Most Wanted, a long-running (1988-2013) television series that dramatized unresolved crimes. The television program led to the capture of more than 1,000 fugitives (16 from the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives) because of the crime clues reported by the public when the criminals were introduced. Surrounding the studio are exhibits at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and McGruff the Crime Dog, as well as the Cross Match Technologies station for children’s finger printing. Because of a number now shot at the location, the studio is now used as an interactive exhibit where visitors can solve crime.

Mission

The mission is to provide guests of all ages with an unforgettable understanding of our National History of Crime and its consequences, law enforcement, forensic science, crime scene investigation (CSI) through a fascinating interactive, engaging and educational experience.

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