the Metropolitan Police moving to it in 2015. This building previously housed the Territorial Policing headquarters and is adjacent to the original New Scotland Yard (Norman Shaw North Building). In December 2015 construction work on the exterior of the Curtis Green building was completed. On 31 October 2016, the Metropolitan Police staff left the building at 10 Broadway and moved to their new headquarters. The new New Scotland Yard building was to have been opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 23 March 2017, but that same day it was announced that the Royal opening would be postponed, due to the preceding day's terrorist attack at Westminster. The opening was re-arranged for 13 July 2017. Like all three of its predecessors it houses the Met's Crime Museum (formerly known as the Black Museum), founded in 1874, a collection of criminal memorabilia not open to the public. Popular culture Scotland Yard has appeared in books, films, television etc. since the Victorian era when it featured in the Jack the Ripper cases and the stories of Sherlock Holmes. In Monty Python's 1969 sketch "The Funniest Joke in the World", Graham Chapman plays a Scotland Yard inspector who leaves the house with the joke in hand before dying from laughter. See also Whitehall 1212 – for many years, the main public telephone number of Scotland Yard Sakurada Gate (Sakuradamon) ― One of the gates at Tokyo Imperial Palace, which is used as a metonym for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department（TMPD） List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories Notes External links Metropolitan Police Branches Blumberg, Jess. "A Brief History of Scotland Yard", Smithsonian.com, 28 September 2007. 1829 establishments in England Police headquarters