China's first police museum with four exhibition rooms. Housed in the former imposing American Citibank, Beijing, the Beijing Police Museum helps define the lives of policemen in the capital. On display are 1,500 pieces out of a collection of 7,000 in the four-storey, 2,000 square metre exhibition areas. On the ground floor is the security history exhibition, on the second floor is the criminal investigation exhibition room, on the third floor the police functions exhibit, on the fourth floor the police culture exhibition.
Main attractions: Notable are rare relics revealing criminal cases, such as guns used by Lu Xianzhou and his gang in bank robberies in 1995-96, whistles, cameras and uniforms used by policemen from 1950 to today, information on an explosion in Xidan in 1968 and the former "highly confidential" map of DPRK statesman Kim II Sung's Beijing tour in 1987 (to protect him from danger).
