Musée de la Prefecture de Police Paris

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About me Born and brought up in England, landed in France on a summer contract at a campsite without speaking the langauge, met a local girl and fell in love. Drifted through a few years of English teaching, including a year spent in Miskolc, Hungary, then retrained as a Technical Author. Took a break from this to become a Web Journalist/Project Manager in the Internet boom year...
Oct 14, 2025

Musée de la Prefecture de Police Paris

Killing Time

""Musée de la Prefecture de Police" Paris is my favorite hidden museum. Zoom straight round to the murder room at the back!"

Over 100 years old (and looking not a day younger!), this museum describes the history of policing in Paris. A dry subject perhaps, but rendered fascinating by the many artifacts, including weapons, photos (gruesome!) and pieces of evidence.

As everything here is in French (probably typed out in the 1960s), you can perhaps skip the parts relating to the origins of the police force and just zoom straight round to the murder room at the back!

The trickiest part of the visit is to find the building in which the museum is housed in the first place (a working police station), then to locate the museum within the building. If you get lost though, you can always ask a policeman!

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