Metropolitan Police Museum

Metropolitan Police Heritage Centre
The Centre's 2009-2020 home in the annexe to Empress State Building.
Metropolitan Police Museum is located in Greater London
Metropolitan Police Museum
Location within Greater London
Established1949
LocationSidcup, London Borough of Bexley, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates51°26′01″N 0°06′07″E / 51.4336°N 0.1019°E / 51.4336; 0.1019
Public transit accessSidcup railway station, 51, 160, 229, 233, 269, 286, 492 and 625 bus routes
Websitehttps://www.met.police.uk/museums

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.[1][2][a] 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 Centrally Delivered Support Services, itself part of MO11.[1][5] It also assists with the care of the Metropolitan Police Historic Vehicle Collection, since 2023 at the same site.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Official was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Friends of the Metropolitan Police Historical Collection - Heritage Centre".
  3. ^ "Records of the Metropolitan Police Office (1803-2012)". The National Archives. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  4. ^ "How to Search for Metropolitan Police Records". The National Archives. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  5. ^ "Police Careers - Heritage Centre Assistant".


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