Off the 'Cuff

One of our most popular workshops last week was our “Forensic Entomology” workshop, where kids got a chance to get up-close-and-personal with blowfly maggots. Before we let our plucky adolescent maggots out into the world, we pulled out the camera and let them be their uninhibited selves. (It’s amazing how uninhibiting Spring Break can be.) [...]

Spring Break is just around the corner and here at the Police Museum we are gearing up for another great session of intriguing forensic science workshops. This year we are offering all of last years  favourites  including fingerprints, blood spatter, entomology, ballistics and impression evidence.  All workshops are one hour long and encourage youth to [...]

1300 visitors in six days! It blows our mind, thinking about it; we managed to have almost an entire month of people come through the museum in just a week. Spring Break was busy for us, in fact it was easily the busiest the museum has ever been; we ran forensics-themed workshops and our drop-in [...]

Just finished putting the final touches on our plan for Spring Break (Mar 14 – Mar 21) this year. In addition to our always-popular crime scene investigations, we’re also going to be offering a number of workshops on different forensics topics. Hilary has been hard at work putting together some really neat new programs; I [...]