Traveling somewhere? Listed is the most comprehensive list of police museums in the nation and worldwide. If you are aware of any other police museums not listed here please let us know.
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Police Museums USA
Updated May 2014
ALABAMA
Alabama Dept of Public Safety HQ Museum (Montgomery)
Dauphin Street Police Museum (Mobile)
ALASKA
Alaska Trooper Museum FOAST (Anchorage)
AMERICAN SAMOA
ARIZONA
ARKANSAS
US Marshals History Museum (Ft Smith)
State Police Collection (Little Rock)
CALIFORNIA
CHP Academy Museum (W.Sacramento)
California Law Enforcement Historical Society
Long Beach Police Historical Society
Los Angeles County Sheriff Museum
Napa Police Historical Society (NPD Lobby)
San Diego County Sheriff Museum
San Jose Police Historical Society (under const.)
COLORADO
Prison Museum of Colorado (Canon City)
CONNECTICUT
Connecticut State Police Museum (Meriden)
DELAWARE
Delaware Trooper Museum (Dover)
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
FLORIDA
Black Police Precinct & Courthouse Museum (Miami)
National Armed Services Law Enforcement Museum (Dunedin)
GEORGIA
Crime & Punishment Museum (Ashburn)
GUAM
HAWAII
IDAHO
ILLINOIS
Illinois State Police Heritage Foundation & Museum (Springfield)
INDIANA
Terre Haute Fire-Police Museum
IOWA
Des Moines PD Museum (HQ 2nd floor)
Sioux City PD Museum (HQ 2nd Floor)
KANSAS
KENTUCKY
Kentucky State Police Museum (Frankfort)
Lexington Public Safety Museum
LOUISIANA
MAINE
Maine State Police Museum (Augusta)
MARYLAND
Maryland State Police Museum (Pikesville)
Howard County Police (Ellicott City under construction)
MASSACHUSETTS
Massachusetts State Police Museum (Grafton)
MINNESOTA
MISSISSIPPI
MICHIGAN
MISSOURI
Missouri HP Safety Education Center and Museum (Jefferson City)
Kansas City Police Historical Society
US Army Military Police Corps Regimental Museum (Ft Leonard Wood)
MONTANA
Montana LE Museum (Great Falls)
NEBRASKA
NEVADA
Silver State Peace Officers Museum (Virginia City)
The National Museum of Organized Crime & Law Enforcement (Las Vegas)
NEW HAMPSHIRE
American Police Motorcycle Museum (Meredith)
NEW JERSEY
New Jersey State Police Museum (West Trenton)
NEW MEXICO
Dona Ana County Sheriff Museum (Las Cruces)
NEW YORK
Greenport Village Police Museum
Nassau County Police Museum (Mineola)
Suffolk County Police Museum (Yaphank)
NORTH CAROLINA
NORTH DAKOTA
Law Enforcement Museum (Bonanzaville - West Fargo)
NORTHERN MARIANAS ISLANDS
OHIO
Cincinnati Police Historical Society
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma Law Enforcement Museum (Chandler)
OREGON
PENNSYLVANIA
State Police Museum (Hershey/Harrisburg)
PUERTO RICO
RHODE ISLAND
State Police Museum (North Scituate)
SOUTH CAROLINA
SC LEO Hall of Fame (Columbia)
SOUTH DAKOTA
TENNESSEE
TN Highway Patrol Museum (Rockwood)
Sheriff Buford Pusser Museum (Adamsville)
TEXAS
Abilene Police Department Museum
Border Patrol Museum (El Paso)
Dallas PD Museum (under construction)
Texas Rangers Hall of Fame Museum (Waco)
Wichita Falls Fire & Police Museum
US Airforce Security Police Museum (Lackland AFB)
UTAH
VERMONT
Vermont State Police Museum (St Albans)
VIRGINIA
State Police Academy Museum (Richmond)
VIRGIN ISLANDS
WASHINGTON
WEST VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
Old Fire House & Police Museum (Superior)
WYOMING
Wyoming Frontier Prison (Rawlins)
International Police Museums
Updated May 2014
ARGENTINA:
Federal Police Museum (Buenos Aires)
Police History Museum (jujuy-San Salvador)
AUSTRALIA:
Australian Federal Police Museum (Canberra)
Queensland Police Museum (Brisbane)
Justice Police Museum (Sydney)
Victoria Police Museum (Melbourne)
South Australia Police Museum (Adelaide)
AUSTRIA:
Osterrich Kriminalmuseum (Schloss Scharnstein)
BELGIUM:
Provincal Police Museum (Wommelgem)
BRAZIL:
Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Museum
CANADA:
Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Museum (Corner Brook)
New Westminister Police Museum (British Columbia)
St Johns Police Museum (New Brunswick)
Ontario Provincial Police Museum
The Fort - Museum of the NW Mounted Police (Ft McLeod, Alberta)
Victoria BC Police Museum (PD HQ)
CHINA:
COLOMBIA:
Victory Over Crime Police Museum (Bogota)
CROATIA:
CYPRUS:
CZECH REPUBLIC:
DENMARK:
Police History Museum (Kobenhavn)
DUBAI:
EGYPT:
Police Museum of Egypt (Cairo)
ESTONIA:
Estonia Police Museum (Talinn)
FRANCE:
Musee de la Gendarmerie Nationale (Melun)
Musee de la Prefecture de Police Museum (Paris)
Musée-des-Traditions-de-la-Garde-républicaine (Paris)
Riot Police CRS District 1 HQ by appointment only
GERMANY:
Medieval Crime Museum (Rothenburg)
Deutsches-polizeimuseum (Saltzkotten)
Police Academy Museum Baden-württemberg-freiburg
Polizei Old Timer Museum (Marburg)
FINLAND:
National Police Museum (Tampere)
HONG KONG:
HUNGARY:
House of Terror Museum (Budapest)
Police Historical Museum (Budapest)
Ungarisches Polizeimuseum (Tarnamera)
INDIA:
National Police Museum (New Delhi)
Andhra_Pradesh_Police_Academy (Hyderabad)
IRELAND:
The Garda Police Museum (Dublin)
ISRAEL:
National Police College Heritage Center (Kiryat Ata)
ITALY:
Museum of The Guardia di Finanza (Rome)
State Police Car Museum (Rome)
JAMAICA:
JAPAN:
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Museum
LITHUANIA:
Central Police Museum (Vilnius)
LUXEMBOURG:
KUWAIT:
MALAYSIA:
MALTA:
National Police HQ Museum (Floriana)
MEXICO:
Federal Police Mexico City (Colonia Molino de Belen)
Narco Terrorism Museum Mexico City DF (by appointment only)
MUSEO DE LA POLICIA PREVENTIVA DE LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (POLICE MUSEUM) Address: Avenida Wilfrido Massieu, Mexico City, 07738, Mexico, MX (no website)
NETHERLANDS:
NEW ZEALAND:
New Zealand Police Museum (Porirua)
International Police Museum and Museum Lodge (Dannevirke)
NORWAY:
PERU:
National Police Museum of Criminology (Lima)
POLAND:
ROMANIA:
Romanian Police Museum (Targoviste)
RUSSIA:
Central MVD and Police Museum (Moscow)
Political Police Museum (St Petersburg)
Museum of the Russian Police (St Petersburg)
SINGAPORE:
Police Museum - Senior Officers Mess (under construction)
SLOVAKIA:
Police Museum of the Slovak Republic (Bratislava)
SLOVENIA:
Museum of Slovene Police (Ljubljana)
SOUTH AFRICA:
SA Police Museum (Ventersburg)
SPAIN:
Guardia Urbana Museum (Barcelona)
SRI LANKA:
Sri Lanka Police College Museum (Kalutara)
SWEDEN:
SWITZERLAND:
Criminal Museum of Zurich State Police (Zurich)
TAIWAN:
THAILAND:
Police Museum Parusakawan Palace (Bangkok)
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO:
Police Service Museum (Port of Spain)
TURKEY:
National Police Academy Police Museum
UKRAINE:
Museum Police Atrocities State Crime
UNITED KINGDOM:
Cambridgeshire Constabulary PM
Metropolitan Police Museum Brompton (London)
Sherlock Holmes Museum (London)
Derbyshire Police Museum (Buxton)
Devon and Corwall Police Museum
Essex Police Museum (Chelmsford)
Glamorgan Old Police station museum
Greater Manchester Police Museum
Northern Ireland Police Museum (Belfast)
Scotland Police Museum (Glasgow)
Emergency Services Museum (South Yorkshire)
Royal Military Police Museum (Southwick)
South Wales Police Museum (Bridgend)
Police Museum (Warwickshire/Coventry)
UAE:
MISCELLANEOUS:
Police Museum Links in Germany