Museums · London
Metropolitan Police Museum
In or near Crockenhill.
Metropolitan Police Museum — Law enforcement museum in London, England.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1.5 h–3 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
- Nearest railway station
- Sidcup · 0.1 km
- Family-friendly
- Wheelchair accessible
Getting there & planning your visit
The Metropolitan Police Museum is located at postcode DA15 7ES in Bexley, London. The nearest railway station is Sidcup, which is just 0.1 km away. Entry is free, and the museum is wheelchair accessible.
About
Metropolitan Police Museum is a museum in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 2009. Wikidata describes it as: "Law enforcement museum in London, England". Coordinates: 51.4337°, 0.1020°.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Metropolitan Police Museum is the museum, library and archive of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), conserving and curating documents, books, objects and uniforms relating to the organisation's history. Over the course of its existence it has also been known as the Police Museum, Bow Street Museum, the Metropolitan Police Historical Collection and from 2009 to 2022 as the Metropolitan Police Heritage Centre. It and the Crime Museum are both run by a team within Operational Support Services, itself part of MO11. It also assists with the care of the Metropolitan Police Historic Vehicle Collection, since 2023 at the same site.
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Background
History
The first appeal for objects was put out by Chief Superintendent Arthur Rowlerson of E Division in 1949 to mark the bicentenary of the Metropolitan Police's forerunners the Bow Street Runners. The first curator Audrey Sams was an existing member of the Met's civil staff at Bow Street who had previously been a police officer. She organised loans to an exhibition at the Museum of London in 1979 to mark the Met's 150th anniversary and instigated research into a potential new site at an empty Met building in Wapping. In September 1981 Sams was succeeded as curator by Marcelle Marceau. Later that year the exhibition space at Bow Street closed and the collections store moved to a former Met…
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- Coordinates
- 51.4337, 0.1020
- District
- Bexley
- Parish
- Bexley, unparished area
- Postcode
- DA15 7ES
- Parliamentary constituency
- Old Bexley and Sidcup
- Established
- 2009
- Nearest railway station
- Sidcup — 0.1 km
Sources
- wikidata: Q60794392 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Metropolitan Police Museum (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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📷 5Frequently asked questions
- Where is Metropolitan Police Museum?
- Metropolitan Police Museum is in London, United Kingdom (postcode DA15 7ES), in the parish of Bexley, unparished area.
- What is Metropolitan Police Museum?
- Metropolitan Police Museum — Law enforcement museum in London, England.
- How do I get to Metropolitan Police Museum?
- The nearest railway station is Sidcup, about 0.1 km away. Drivers can use postcode DA15 7ES.
- When was Metropolitan Police Museum built?
- Built or established in 2009.
- How do I get to Metropolitan Police Museum?
- The nearest railway station is Sidcup, about 0.1 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode DA15 7ES.