Houston Police Museum - Houston, Texas

Le Houston Police Museum est un musée et attraction touristique située au 1200 Travis St, Houston, TX 77002. Ce musée est dédié à l'histoire et à l'évolution du département de police de Houston. Il propose une variété d'expositions intéressantes, y compris des véhicules de police historiques, des armes à feu et des équipements, et des expositions interactives pour les enfants.

Le musée est accessible en fauteuil roulant, avec un parking et des toilettes adaptés à cet effet. Il dispose également de toilettes, d'un restaurant et est adapté aux enfants. Le musée est ouvert du mardi au samedi, de 10h à 16h.

Le Houston Police Museum a reçu 100 avis sur Google My Business, avec une moyenne de 4.4/5. Les visiteurs ont loué l'intérêt historique du musée, la variété des expositions et l'interactivité pour les enfants.

En plus de ses expositions, le musée propose également des visites guidées, des événements spéciaux et des programmes éducatifs pour les écoles. Il est possible de réserver des visites de groupe à l'avance.

Avis de Houston Police Museum

Mc Ph Rigs (“Mc Ph Rigs”)

5/5

Un petit musée sur la police locale , sympa à faire. Les officiers de l'accueil hyper sympa.
Ce petit musée mériterait un peu plus d'attention , en remettant les objets qui ont bougés.

Connie Flores

5/5

Really cool (free) museum. There are so many interesting things to see and learn about our Houston Police.

Jr. S.

2/5

The museum is in rough shape and neglected, lots of stuff knocked over and out of place. Took my 11 years old son to motivate him and possibly want to be a police officer. I was disappointed in the condition that the museum is left in. It is a small section and can be walked through in about 15 minutes but I stretched it out to about 40 minutes so he could really read the information on displayed items that were above his eye level ?

Desiree Palope

5/5

Such an interesting (free) little museum! We parked close and walked. We went on a Monday at 5. There was no one there but us. We had to wait at the metal detectors for a cop to let us in. They gave our kids a sticker badge and all of us a visitor badge. None of the tvs were on but that was ok. A lot of the hats and stuff fell down in the cases. It was very interesting and neat to see and great to take the kids on a hot summer day.

Kenneth Hawkins

5/5

Crazy this place is a real museum with real credentials from officers weapons and uniforms. They were friendly to me when I asked to see the museum. I recommend if you care to see it go do it because the pictures I took have reflection from the glass they placed in.

Andy F.

5/5

Nice little museum of the history of the Houston police. Admission is free.

Victor Diaz

5/5

We enjoyed learning about the history of the Houston Police Department through pictures and artifacts. It is a small museum with enough history to keep you at least an hour. Good for children as well. Would recommend it highly to others. Thank you!

Cindy Gauthier

3/5

It was reeeeeeally hard to squeeze out a third star. I think I gave it an extra one due to the respect I have for this policing agency. Plus I think someone is doing the museum a disservice by not maintaining it. For example, fallen down displays, curled up pictures, pictures completely upside down, cheap small area rugs as a base all take away from the message being shared by this museum with the great history of the Houston Police Department.
Back up things for a minute to give you the full info on going here. Paid parking on the street is ampel during the weekdays. The museum is free. It is held in the Main Police Quarters, so you must go through a full TSA like scan of your personal items and person (metal detector and hand scanner). You then have to register your personal ID with the front desk. They scan your ID (Drivers' license in my case; whew! for being clean), Passport for my friend (and they also took a picture of him) and then you proceed to the other side of the lobby where the museum is.
The display cases are top of the line. The large items such as police motorcycle and donated mini-car are cool. The history is amazing with lots of donated items from waaaay back when. Fascinating evolvement that comes with industrialization and modernization were detailed with facts, pictures, uniforms, hats, actual weapons and stories aplenty. There is a complete wall display dedicated to the first responders of 9/11. It was somber and touching.
You can spend an hour or more, at least, reading each article or description or even more.
The problems begin if you are in to the details. I am a bit OCD so I notice things that likely don't pop up on other people's radar. Written placards were laying about having fallen off of their perches. Often pictures or articles were matted but not framed, which allowed for the matting to age and curl. One three hole matted display looked like someone had cut the squares out with a hatchet or kids' scissors. Seriously people. Mannequins wearing uniforms were standing on scattered cheap area rugs. One newspaper article in the 9/11 display was curled right over. There was a related article on that side but the main one on display was lost in the inefficient clamps meant to hold it in place. Which was the case in several cases.
It was a privilege to see this museum and I loved the whole idea and history, but I was sad that more care was or is not taken to present the history in a manner befitting it's honor and worth. Surely there must be a foundation that takes care of this museum Or $50 in the budget to fix things......(totally under-guessing I'm sure)
We were on a time crunch or I would have taken some time to let someone know about the displays. I hope someone with pull reads this review and lets the appropriate folks know.