Museum open days return for summer 2024
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Cheshire’s Museum of Policing is opening its doors to the public again across August.
Housed in the police station on Arpley Street, Warrington, Cheshire’s Museum of Policing preserves and exhibits artefacts spanning a long history of policing in the county.
As has been tradition for a number of years, the museum will be opening its doors yet again this August, to allow visitors of all ages to immerse themselves in the history of their local police force, from its conception in 1857 right up to today.
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Visitors can expect to find a number of policing artefacts including vehicles, weapons and investigative tools used to tackle crime and a wide collection of uniforms from across the force’s 150-year-plus history.
Museum attendees can also experience life behind bars, locked up in the Victorian-era cells and step inside a formerly operational police box – which is, unfortunately, not bigger on the inside.
There is also a souvenir shop where you can take away a memento from your visit.
There’s no need to book, you can drop in, free of charge, anytime between 10am and 3pm on August 7, 14, 21 and 28.
The museum is an independent charity run by volunteers in cooperation with Cheshire Constabulary, that has recently hosted schoolchildren from across the region, the force’s newest recruits and retired and senior officers alike.
For more information about the museum, which is funded through public donations, you can visit the Museum of Policing website or call 01606 365803.