Monday, June 6

Crime Scene Live review: Be a CSI at London’s Natural History Museum

Crime Scene Live is an ongoing series of events, usually once per month, at the Natural History Museum in London. It's a very popular event and tickets sell out months in advance.

I always knew there had to be a dark side to the seemingly sedate Natural History Museum, and lo and behold I recently received an ominous e-mail. There’s been a murder in a shed behind the museum, I'm told. My first thought is it might be one of the screaming children you often see outside the Dinostore, miserably whining about the size of their snuggler. But on closer inspection this murder was committed last year, and the case is now being reopened due to some gruesome new evidence.

I feel well prepared for my job as a trainee crime scene investigator (CSI) having binge watched Making a Murderer recently. I don my full SOCO (scene of crime officer) suit and—with cider in one hand, notepad in the other—I pay close attention to the initial briefing. Event organizer Lucy Minshall fills me in (along with 100 other novices) on some mysterious disappearances that have happened amongst the museum staff. Chillingly, we ponder whether the skeleton in the shed could be one of them.

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