Story
of your life
National Law Enforcement Museum
will tell the dramatic history of
law enforcement in America
■ BY JOSHUA SIGMUND
A view of what the “Reel to Real” exhibit will look like.
A 111-seat theater will serve as
the introduction to the museum.
An artist’s rendering of the “Officers’
Stories” exhibit.
It’s been a long time coming.
More than 350 years, in fact, since America’s first known system of law enforcement was established in Boston. But now,
with approximately 38 months to go before the first visitors will
descend through the Louvre-style glass pavilions to the
National Law Enforcement Museum on E Street across from the
Memorial, exhibits are being created, artifacts are being collected and stories are being recorded.
Your stories.
“We want to capture it all,” proclaims Rebecca Looney, the
museum’s senior director of exhibits and programs. “It’s a complex and exciting history starting from colonial times through
today that covers different topics from the movement out West
to immigration. No matter what was happening, everything
affects, and is affected by, law enforcement, and we try to tell
that story the best w