Bavarian Police Museum, Police museum in Triva Redoubt, Ingolstadt, Germany.
The Bavarian Police Museum occupies the Turm Triva, a historic tower in the Klenzepark in Ingolstadt, and is a department of the Bavarian Army Museum. Its exhibits date from 1918 onwards and cover the history, organisation and development of policing in Bavaria since the revolution of 1918–19. The displays include uniforms, badges, photographs, documents, technical equipment, vehicles and weapons.
The collection was owned by the Bavarian police before becoming a department of the Bavarian Army Museum in 2007. A first special exhibition, "60 Years of Police in Bavaria", ran in the Reduit Tilly from 26 September 2006 to 23 September 2007 and drew 9,466 visitors by the end of 2006. The museum itself opened in Turm Triva on 19 December 2011.
The museum is a department of the Bavarian Army Museum, housed in the Turm Triva in the Klenzepark. Its first special exhibition, "60 Years of Police in Bavaria", ran from 26 September 2006 to 23 September 2007 in the Reduit Tilly and drew 9,466 visitors by the end of 2006. In 2012 the same building hosted the exhibition "Ordnung und Vernichtung – die Polizei im NS-Staat", organised with the German Police University and the Deutsches Historisches Museum.
The museum occupies the Turm Triva, a tower in the Klenzepark on the Danube's right bank, north of the old town across the river. It is a department of the Bavarian Army Museum, so the two are visited separately. The tower is a landmark visible from the park paths.
The museum is a department of the Bavarian Army Museum, to which the collection was transferred in 2007 after being owned by the police itself. Its first special exhibition, "60 Years of Police in Bavaria", ran from 26 September 2006 to 23 September 2007 in the Reduit Tilly and drew 9,466 visitors by the end of 2006.
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