Bow Street Police Museum

Bow Street Police Museum

Entrance in Martlett Court, Bow St
Location within City of Westminster
Established	May 2021
Location	Covent Garden London, WC2E 7AW
Coordinates	51°30′49″N 00°07′18″W / 51.51361°N 0.12167°W / 51.51361; -0.12167
Type	Police museum
Public transit access	Covent Garden Aldwych 11, 15, 26, 76, 172, 243, 341
Website	Official website

The Bow Street Police Museum, opened in 2021, is based in the former police station in Covent Garden, London. Bow Street has a unique place in the history of policing in London, with the museum presenting the story of policing and criminal justice in the area from the eighteenth century until 1992, when the police station closed.

The current museum of this name is not to be confused with the Metropolitan Police's own small public display of historic artefacts which occupied four galleries and five other rooms on the third floor of Bow Street Police Station from 1949 until the 1980s, then in West Brompton and now Sidcup - a cutlass, rattle and other objects from that collection are on loan to the Bow Street Police Museum.^[1]