Why police and crime museums? Because those two topics intersect with all other aspects of history - gender, sexuality, class, race, technology, faith, war ...
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London's river police was merged into the Met in 1839. Its beat has always included the stretch of the Thames bordering the City of London even though on land that area has its own police service, while City officers police Tower Bridge despite both its ends being on Met territory! #water #Museum30

This London bobby crops up between Restoration ladies and Pearly Kings and Queens on a #mural entitled “The History of the Old Kent Road", completed on the North Peckham Civic Centre sixty years ago this year. It is by Adam Kossowski, a Polish refugee from Soviet oppression. #Museum30 #southLondon

Available in over 50 other languages besides UK/US English, our new Bloomberg Connects guide (tinyurl.com/mtn6yzrr or via their app) has already been accessed by nearly 400 people. It is due to be in use in our gallery space from January 2026 onwards. #Museum30 #achievement

In the forty years since leaving its original site in Bow Street, the Police Museum collection has moved from Charlton to Woolwich to West Brompton to Sidcup. Hopefully our coming years will have considerably less #moving ! #Museum30

The Police Museum holds this copy of the George Medal issued to WPS Ethel Bush for plain-clothes decoy duty against a Croydon sex attacker in 1955 & some of the press coverage of its award at Buckingham Palace, whilst the Crime Museum holds the log used to attack her. #danger #Museum30 #VAWG #CM150

For over 80 years the Met's Special Branch called in explosives #specialist s like Vivian Majendie to defuse bombs planted in London rather than doing it themselves. In 1971 this changed when the Met set up its own Bomb Squad to counter the anarchist Angry Brigade campaign. #Museum30 #CM150

Met officers often received a reward for gaining control of runaway horses (and the occasional "infuriated cow") in the streets of Victorian London, but these escaped elephants in 1884 Kentish Town were an altogether rarer occurrence ... #Museum30 #animal