Authored by Julie Bell 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. Before the 1870s, law enforcement was an exclusively…
Read More >Museum Announces Acquisition of J. Edgar Hoover Estate
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…
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Five Cool Artifacts in the Collections of the National Law Enforcement Museum
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…
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Contraband Weapons—Shivs and Shanks at the NLEM
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…
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Bringing the Museum Into Your Home: The NLEM’s Online Catalog
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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