The museum, which originally promised to celebrate women’s rights and accomplishments, is now about the notorious serial killer who targeted women.

A man who promised to build the UK’s first women’s museum has instead created a museum to serial killer Jack the Ripper.

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Palmer-Edgecumbe, who was a former head of diversity and inclusion for Google, worked with architects at Waugh Thistleton to create the proposal.

A spokesperson at Waugh Thistleton confirmed to BuzzFeed News that they worked with Palmer-Edgecumbe, but said they did not work with him in the changing the museum's theme.

We did plan to do a museum about social history of women but as the project developed we decided a more interesting angle was from the perspective of the victims of Jack the Ripper.

It is absolutely not celebrating the crime of Jack the Ripper but looking at why and how the women got in that situation in the first place.

The original proposal for the woman's museum, available on the Tower Hamlet council's website, included images of suffragettes and equal pay campaigners.

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