Remember, remember the 5th of November Gunpowder, treason and plot I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot. This is a...

Our new World War I exhibition, For King and Country, is taking shape and we can't wait to open it to the public on Friday 12 November...

Networking - or, in other words, having a good old catch up! - is vital for us all. Whether it’s with our family at the weekend or...

What does someone who works at a police, fire and ambulance museum do in their spare time? Well, go and visit another police museum of...

When we reopened in May this year, we were proudly telling people NESM was like a new museum - so much work had been done while we were...

Did you know that Great Britain has a coastline longer than many other similar-sized countries? This is because our coastline is very...

To close NESM's season of police, criminology and forensic talks and workshops we have the wise Dr Peter Moore joining us in November for...

There’s lots of reasons why we love being on the road with the collection. Whether it’s living up to our national museum name by making...

Yesterday, on National Emergency Services Day, we officially launched our new learning and discovery programme for schools. In our last...

Working at NESM is finally paying off! And I only had to wait three years… I’m kidding, of course - being part of team NESM has always...

It’s a well-known fact - especially here at NESM - that the first modern police force in Britain was established by Sir Robert Peel, the...

If you're a regular reader of our blog, you will know that our collections team are currently busy sorting and cataloguing the amazing...

It’s baby steps now as we return to ‘normal’. Picking up where we left off a year ago is not easy, especially given how abrupt lockdown...

The summer holidays are in full swing and this year plenty of people seem to be enjoying a staycation. Even with a heatwave to start off...

Next year will mark the 200th anniversary of the UK Coastguard and to celebrate, NESM is working on a new exhibition due to open in...

Those who work for the emergency services are often said to be “a bit like guardian angels”; sometimes they are all that stand between...

Now that we're open again, much of the museum has been updated and refreshed and our loan boxes - a sort of travelling lesson in a box -...

Earlier this week, on Monday 5 July, we marked the 73rd birthday of the NHS. If we didn't know it before, the last 18 months has...

It's been a busy few weeks at the museum as we've started to get back to something like 'normality' - or as close to it as we can under...

Being an independent, self-funded museum brings with it lots of challenges, from the financial to the logistical. The number of ideas...