17.9.2026 | The summer season at the Police Museum was exceptionally busy. Throughout the summer, the museum welcomed visitors from across Finland, and in July it achieved the highest monthly visitor count in its history.

4.12.2025 | The Police Museum's new online exhibition “In Memoriam – Police killed in the line of duty” examines the history of police fatalities. The exhibition reveals for example the most dangerous types of assignments for police officers and how the work community responded to these events in different periods.

25.9.2025 | An exhibition opening in the new gallery facility of the Police Museum describes art crime through 14 criminal cases. Forged artwork of works by Reidar Särestöniemi, Helene Schjerfbeck, Pablo Picasso and others will be on display in the exhibition from October 1.

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is a national unit of the Finnish Police operating across Finland and dealing with a wide range of duties.

A wide range of Police Day events are organised across Finland

25.4.2024 | In the special exhibition “Marias and Mörkös”, vehicles on display include the world’s fastest police motorcycle and police cars from various decades.

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15.3.2024 | The new special exhibition Marias and Mörkös – Police Vehicles On and Off the Road, opens for the general public on 26 April 2024. Due to finishing work required for the exhibition, the museum is closed on 22–25 April.

15.6.2023 | The Crime Museum, situated on the premises of the National Bureau of Investigation in Vantaa, has been part of the Police Museum since 2019. The Crime Museum’s exhibition will now be renewed. The exhibition is not open to the general public, but some exhibits of the Crime Museum are on display at the Police Museum in Tampere.

10.10.2023 | Forged works by “Gallen-Kallela”, “Schjerfbeck” and “Picasso”, information about art crime cases, the related investigations and cooperation between the authorities – all this can still be explored at the Police Museum in Tampere until mid-December.

8.11.2017 | News from the Police Museum: new exhibitions about the police force and its education during the last one hundred years

8.6.2026 | The Police Museum is a free museum located in Hervanta, Tampere. After Midsummer, the museum will also be open on summer Sundays until August 30.

4.11.2021 | How have the police responded to crimes against homosexuals at different times? Why do we need the Police Rainbow Association? The new online exhibition “Crime and Love – The Decriminalization of Homosexual Acts” will answer these and many other questions.

19.1.2018 | Record number of visitors to Police Museum and new online exhibition

12.6.2019 | From Witch Hunts to Cybercrime: the Police Museum’s new permanent exhibition describes the change in the work of the Police

25.3.2021 | Forged artwork, criminal art trade, fraud, money laundering and embezzlement – there are many faces of art crime.

26.11.2018 | New permanent exhibition under construction – Christmas break from 10 December 2018 to 31 January 2019

22.2.2018 | Formally qualified? – A new exhibition at the Police Museum focusing on the changes in police education

23.5.2016 | New website content: an online uniform exhibition

4.5.2017 | The exhibition Public order collapses – 1917 to open at the Police Museum