Phoenix Police Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, United States | Museum | Police Museum

Welcome to Phoenix Police Museum in Phoenix, Southwestern, United States. In October 1993, the Phoenix Police Museum started as a small exhibit at the Historic City Hall, 17 S. Second Ave. With the assistance of Cindy Myers from the Phoenix Museum of History, a temporary six-month display was created. The event was enthusiastically received.
The Arizona Humanities Council funded a study of the artifacts to determine if enough material existed to
open a small museum and it was determined that there was. Barrister Place in Phoenix, Southwestern, was selected as the permanent site of the Phoenix Police Museum. Through generous donations from Motorola, the area was painted and re-carpeted. Home Depot, Store #455, donated construction material for the creation of exhibit areas. The Police Department provided phones and an alarm system. Volunteers prepared the exhibits including a mock up of a 1910 city street and an old jail cell. The opening of the first exhibit of Phoenix Police Museum in the Barrister Place location was on Friday, Oct. 6, 1995.
This interesting museum opened in 1993 and offers a colorful history of the Phoenix Police Department. Learn more about Tom Barnum, Maricopa County's first sheriff whose losing opponents ended their career with a shootout prior to the election.
Bring the kids to Phoenix Police Museum, they can play "cops" and try on old police uniforms.