Christina, one of our employees, approached us a month ago asking if she could have her baby shower here at the Police Museum. Little did we realize that she’d book three bands, have a cash bar, a DJ and invite a couple hundred people! The bands set up in the morgue, the DJ set up in the Autopsy room and food was set up in the main gallery of the museum. We even had a little area set aside for younger kids to hang out and play.

It was exciting to see so many people visit the museum who’d never been here before; the hipster crowd isn’t one we’ve promoted ourselves aggressively to (so far).

If you’re ever looking for a venue to host a most unusual party, think of us. You might have to abide by a few restrictive rules, but we promise that your guests will have such a good time they won’t even notice.

Photo Gallery - All photos taken by Aki Mimoto: www.disconti.nu

Of course, we’ve been involved in dozens of other productions over the years. Rumour has it that both 21 Jump Street and MacGuyver used the courtroom in the early/mid-80′s. More recently, we’ve participated in the filming of X-Files, Millennium, Masters of Horror, Smallville, Butterfly on a Wheel, Fido, Reaper, Fantastic Four, X-Men, jPod, Dragon Boys and more. For some, we rented one of our spaces, for others we rented some of our many props. One of the longest relationships we had was with DaVinci’s Inquest; most of the items in DiVinci’s office came from our museum.

In the next month, we have two more productions filming at the museum and undoubtedly many more to come in the future. We’re just puting the finishing touches on a new package to further promote ourselves to the local Film Industry. When that’s done, I’ll post some of the highlights…. Hopefully we can find some examples of our museum in action!