National Museum of Romanian Police is located on Calea Domneasca at number 185 in Târgoviște, Dâmbovița county. You can park in front of the Chindia stadium, on the right, on the street perpendicular to Calea Domneasca, before the museums area, as you come from Bucharest. Coming on foot, we walked past the former Tribunal, today the History Museum, at number 189, and entered the next courtyard, where the former Prefecture, today the Art Museum, is. Somewhere at the back of the courtyard is the museum I'm telling you about; it's a white, one-story building.
The entrance fee is 5 lei / person. The tour is guided by a competent and pleasant guide. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 9 to 17.
National Museum of Romanian Police is the only museum with this profile in Romania. It was inaugurated in 2000 and I learned about it from a TV report, but also from a second source. It's the former House of the Coconuts built by Prince Constantin Brancoveanu in 1701 to serve as a residence for his sons. Later on, in the 19th century, the Ocarmuirea of the County was housed here and later the Ethnographic Museum. The building is built in neoclassical style and preserves the old cellars. Already interesting!
The museum presents the stages of development of the Romanian Police, mirroring the path traveled by this institution on a national level, but also includes an area reserved for the international section.
The exhibition rooms are located on the first floor of the building. The circuit is open with a dedicated room Agiei, the first police institution in our country, established at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries. On display here are uniforms, weapons and documents. I saw flint pistols, revolvers.
Old weapons
Uniform from Agia's time
18th-19th century uniform
It continues with the princely period, then the interwar period. More documents such as orders of collection or pursuit and passports we will see here.
Did you know that? At the beginning of the 20th century women were not allowed to travel the world unaccompanied by men, so passports could have either a man's picture if they belonged to a man or a man and his wife's picture if they belonged to a woman. Something similar to how today children can leave the country only accompanied by their parents. The proper exceptions existed then as now.
In the showcases and on the walls there are interesting documents and information from the history of the police, pistols and machine pistols.
pistols
swords
The AK7, a weapon built by the Russian Kalasnikov and tested in the harsh conditions of the Siberian winter, the desert and the harsh conditions of the tank-ridden test firing.
machine pistols
police uniform from the communist era
police uniform until 1989
A large space illustrates the work of the police in the contemporary period, including a motorcycle of the Traffic Police.
national flag
contemporary motorcycles
In the last room there are exhibits representing police from other countries, especially uniforms and weapons. There's also a sheriff's badge.
uniforms from other countries
American uniform with sheriff's badge
police in other countries
In the central hall is presented the bronze statue of the ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza and the story of the psychologist, anthropologist and police officer Cantemir Riscutia, who caught the dreaded Rimaru, a rapist and criminal feared since the 70s.
We admire at the end of the visit in the museum a "turkey", the symbol of one of the graduating classes of the police officers' school, as well as some thematic drawings made by children.
Rîmaru - a serial killer from the 80s
turkey - the symbol of a promotion
Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza
designs
Several car seats with seat belts are lined up in the courtyard, with a story attached to each one about an accident and the role of the seat belt in that situation.
seat belt
National Museum of Romanian Police
Visit National Museum of Romanian Police! It is the only museum with this theme in Romania. We loved it!
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