Museum Enquiries

P (04) 238 3141
E Police Museum contact form

Location

New Zealand Police Museum
Royal New Zealand Police College
Papakowhai Road
Porirua, Wellington

Opening hours

10am – 5pm every day except Christmas Day and Good Friday.

Admission

General admission is free. Pre-planned tours and educational programmes:

• museum events (except Christmas Day and Good Friday)
• adults $5
• school holiday programmes $5
• senior citizens $3
• students $3

Amenities

Wheelchair access, free parking, rest-room.

Social story (PDF, 12.4MB)

The Museum also has a small onsite gift shop. You can purchase police souvenirs, children’s toys and police history books. We stock the popular police dog soft toy puppy in either the mako vest or dress uniform.

All shop product is supplied by The Cop Shop (Munro Canteen Inc).

Staff

Rowan Carroll
Chief Curator New Zealand Police

Jessica Aitken
Curator Collections

Kate Ngatokorua
Kaiako Pouwhakarite education and public programmes

Jenna Logan
Education Officer

Front of house team:
museum@police.govt.nz

Located on the campus of the Royal New Zealand Police College in Porirua the Museum is in perfect context. 

Established in 1908 the collection was originally modelled on Scotland Yard’s Black Museum. Today the Museum houses and exhibits a large collection of New Zealand Police cultural property and criminal cases. A modern facility, the New Zealand Police Museum provides education programmes to all ages, using examples of policing excellence and telling the stories of some of the country's more infamous crimes.

The Museum is open between 10am and 5pm, seven days a week (excluding Good Friday and Christmas Day). General admission is free, charges apply for guided tours and programmes and must be booked in advance. 

• New Zealand Police Museum collection management policy 2026 (PDF, 2.9MB)
• New Zealand Police Museum social story (PDF, 12.4MB)