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Author: Helen Taylor

Guest Blog – Work Experience

This guest blog post comes from our work experience placement Zainab. This is her experience with us, in her own words Throughout my time doing work experience at the museum, I have learnt a lot not only about the history of policing, but I’ve also acquired a set of skills that will benefit me greatly …

Object of the Month, July

Our favourite object this month is this West Midlands Police body armour. An early example, from the 1990s, designed to protect officers in dangerous situations. Stored at police stations or in police cars, this type of body armour was available for police officers to use, if needed. Today body armour is personal issue, every police …

Father’s Day Special Offer

Fancy a day out with a difference. Dad’s can visit us for just £5 this Father’s Day, with a paying child, be that big kid or little kid! Spend some time at our Victorian lock up and discover what life was like beind bars. There is plenty to do for all the family, trails for …

Festive Fun at the West Midlands Police Museum

Looking for something that the whole family can enjoy this Christmas, then join us for some ‘Festive Fun’ from Saturday 16th December to Friday 23rd December . Help Lock-up Mouse find all of the elves and make your very own police snowman decoration. Explore our Victorian Lock-up and learn all about policing in the past, …

Case Closed – The Murder of Edward Pope

On Saturday 2nd July, the Lock-up helped play a role in solving a murder. The suspects were brought in and held in our cells whilst we invited a group of special investigators to help solve the crime. Whilst this might not be the first set of suspects we have ever held in our cells, they …

Rare Object Donation

Introducing a new acquisition for the West Midlands Police Museum, and certainly one of the oldest items now in our collection, a rare object relating to law and order prior to the creation of the Birmingham Borough Police in 1839. Staves such as the Birmingham one would have been carried by a civic official and …