March is National Women’s History Month and at the National Law Enforcement Museum, we are celebrating by looking at the history of women in law enforcement professions.
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March is National Women’s History Month and at the National Law Enforcement Museum, we are celebrating by looking at the history of women in law enforcement professions.
Read More >We here at the National Law Enforcement Museum are thrilled to publicly announce the acquisition of an important addition to our growing collection: J.Edgar Hoover’s estate, donated to us by the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation. Hoover served as director of…
Read More >We have so many interesting objects in our collections. Here are five I’ve selected, listed in no particular order. Photograph, ca. 1960. 2008.40.26. Collection of the NLEM, Washington, D.C. This image was probably used in a ca. 1960s FBI training…
Read More >In 2007, Louisiana State University (LSU) donated a collection of contraband weapons to the National Law Enforcement Museum. According to Barry Cowan, LSU Archivist, the weapons originally formed a display used by LSU’s Law Enforcement Training Program, which ran from…
Read More >The National Law Enforcement Museum is one of only a few museums that has decided to catalog ALL of its collections—from books, manuscripts, and photographs to oral histories and three-dimensional artifacts—in one database, thus allowing access to all kinds of…
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