Police heritage
Poliisimuseo
A police museum that belongs to a police university college rather than to a police force — and the largest photographic holding in this registry, at 142,000 images.
At a glance
- Name
- Poliisimuseo — Police Museum, Finland
- Kind
- Museum Run by a police training institution
- Operator
- The Police University College of Finland
- Where
- Tampere, Finland
- Official page
- https://poliisimuseo.fi/ — read on 13 September 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 13 September 2026
What it preserves
Approximately 24,000 objects, 142,000 photographs, 4,000 films or multimedia presentations and 2,500 books.
Its police-history scope
Finnish policing. The museum was established in 2004 and opened in its own facilities in 2008, in the College’s premises in the Hervanta district of Tampere.
Public access, as officially stated
Whose history this holds
Sources
The museum in brief — Police Museum, Finland
Poliisimuseo (Police University College of Finland) · Museum · link verified 2026-09-13
SCOPE: the Finnish Police Museum only. The museum’s own English page, read directly. Supports that it was established in 2004 and opened in its own facilities in 2008; that it is part of the Police University College; that it is in the Hervanta district of Tampere, in the College’s premises; that the collections hold "approximately 24,000 objects, 142,000 photographs, 4,000 films or multimedia presentations and 2,500 books"; and that the museum is "open to the public without an admission fee". THE EARLIER READING OF THIS PAGE WAS WRONG, or has been overtaken. It was recorded as offering only mutable collection counts; the page also states the museum's founding year in a sentence, and the scope anchors on that rather than on any count. ACCESS NOTE: poliisimuseo.fi answered HTTP 403 to the request made in researching this page on 2026-10-10, and nothing was attempted to get around the refusal. An automated check on 2026-10-05, made from elsewhere, was served this page and found its text unchanged since it was read, so what is recorded here stood then.