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

It’s now almost a month since we opened our doors to visitors again and what a few weeks it’s been! We were lucky enough to welcome a...

There was a time when Dinky toys and tin soldiers were found in the bedrooms and toy boxes of millions of youngsters throughout the...

The Victorians were an industrious lot. They were always reforming things and they were keen, in particular, to leave behind the...

In the three years that I've been a volunteer at NESM the museum has been utterly transformed, and 2021 has witnessed the biggest changes...

Sound the horns! Wave the flags! Sprinkle the confetti! Pop the corks! We're back! Yes, after another six month coronavirus closure we...

Talking to people who knew our museum from years ago but haven’t been recent visitors, we often hear the phrase “but you’re just fire...

Picture the scene...the dark, foreboding streets of Victorian London. Thieves, pickpockets and rogues around every corner and a police...

During the last year our learning and discovery team has seen quite a few changes - as have so many others - not least with members of...

Forensic science with its high tech methods can seem like quite a modern area of crime fighting. But its roots actually stretch way back...

There can’t be many better places to host a brand-new exhibition on Victorian policing than a genuine Victorian police station. Luckily...

If you have any friends or family who work in the museum sector you’ll be all too familiar with ‘exhibition brain’. Someone suffering...

Happy Easter! I hope you're stocked up on eggs and hot cross buns, and ready for the arrival of the Easter bunny. Talking of animals and...

Have you filled in your census? Last weekend - Sunday 21 March - was UK census day; the survey that's held every 10 years and provides a...

It's now more than two years since I joined #TeamNESM as a learning and discovery co-ordinator but when I first visited the museum it...

It's the 1720s and you are a young gentleman from a good and respectable family who has just finished his studies at university. You have...

Among our collection here at NESM are many hundreds of examples of emergency services uniforms. They come from different time periods and...

At NESM we pride ourselves on offering all our visitors, young and old, a fun and engaging museum experience. This isn’t just about what...

If you speak to a local Sheffielder, you’ll find that there’s a lot of confusion regarding the use of the building NESM is housed within...

Within the vast collection we have here at the museum, we’re often discovering little gems that give us a fascinating and unexpected...