Wellcome Collection exhibition tracks murder from crime scene to courtroom

Glass jars of blow flies, dissecting table and doll's house-size models on show in Forensics, at newly expanded museum

Standing beside the liver of a Victorian girl and the six-inch knife with which her brother fatally stabbed her four times, Ken Arnold, head of exhibitions at the Wellcome Collection, says cheerfully: "No, I don't think we're going to have any fainters this time."

The more full-on exhibitions at Wellcome, including footage of open-heart surgery and vividly realistic wax models of appalling diseases, have acquired a reputation for causing sensitive visitors to be carried out feet first. Forensics, an exhibition that follows the course of murder and violent assault from crime scene to courtroom, may yet continue that trend.