Media Requests Filming at Museum Facilities
The Police Museum receives media requests on a continuum and is happy to provide whatever assistance is needed to insure the public has a better understanding of police history. Since 1997, the Museum has collaborated with a variety of mainstream and independent news organizations that include: The Associated Press, National and local news affiliates, The History Channel, A&E, Discovery Channel, Biography, Mysteries At The Museum, America's Most Wanted, Cold Case Files, The Dead Files, Washington's Most Wanted, Steven King Productions and many more.
Although the Police Museum's main Educational Facility closed in December of 2017, the Museum maintains additional locations and assets that are still available to the media, including its Collection's Storage Facility, Vintage Jail Cell & Communications Center, Vintage Police Vehicle Storage & Maintenance Facility, and its historical Vintage Police Car fleet.
Movie Production Requests Vintage Patrol Car Leasing
Since its inception in 1997, the Police Museum's vintage assets have been used in a variety of film productions. The Police Museum is able to provide media organizations with vintage police equipment, patrol vehicles, communications equipment, a jail cell and other original artifacts that date from 1890 through 2008. (See Below)
The Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum's collection of original, fully marked & equipped vintage patrol cars is one of the largest in the world. Its vehicles are verifiably authentic to the agencies they represent (Seattle, King County, Washington State Patrol, Bellevue and Tacoma, and range in age from a 1949 Washington State Patrol Ford "Shoebox" to a 2003 King County Sheriff (WA) Ford Crown Victoria. This collection is available for viewing by appointment only. Any requests that are received depicting these vintage cars that represent actual police agencies must received approval from the Chief or Sheriff of the vehicle(s) requested.
An Associated Press Cameraman with the Police Museum's 1970 Seattle Police Plymouth Satellite in Westlake Park. 2013