Metropolitan Police Museum

The first appeal for objects was put out by Chief Superintendent Arthur Rowlerson of E Division in 1949 to mark the bicentenary of the Metropolitan Police's forerunners the Bow Street Runners. The first curator Audrey Sams was an existing member of the Met's civil staff at Bow Street who had previously been a police officer. She organised loans to an exhibition at the Museum of London in 1979 to mark the Met's 150th anniversary and instigated research into a potential new site at an empty Met building in Wapping. In September 1981 Sams was succeeded as curator by Marcelle Marceau. Later that year the exhibition space at Bow Street closed and the collections store moved to a former Met…