Police heritage
New Zealand Police Museum
A museum on the campus of the Royal New Zealand Police College, whose collection dates from 1908 — older than most of the forces whose museums appear here.
At a glance
- Name
- New Zealand Police Museum
- Kind
- Museum Run by a police service
- Operator
- New Zealand Police
- Where
- Porirua, New Zealand
- Official page
- https://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/history-museum/museum — read on 13 September 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 13 September 2026
What it preserves
The museum "houses and exhibits a large collection of New Zealand Police cultural property and criminal cases".
Its police-history scope
New Zealand policing, with a collection established in 1908. That date makes the collection itself a historical object: it was assembled while much of what it holds was current equipment.
Whose history this holds
Sources
About the Museum — New Zealand Police Museum
New Zealand Police · Museum · link verified 2026-09-13
SCOPE: the New Zealand Police Museum only. The museum’s own page, read directly. Supports the official name New Zealand Police Museum; that the collection was established in 1908; that the museum "houses and exhibits a large collection of New Zealand Police cultural property and criminal cases"; that it is operated by New Zealand Police; and that it is "Located on the campus of the Royal New Zealand Police College in Porirua". Opening hours and admission arrangements appear on the page and are deliberately NOT republished: they change without notice and this platform has no freshness architecture for them.