The museum is free of charge. Its small but cute. All in all I enjoyed it.

A fantastic collection. It really show the HPD in a good light and shows it evolution over its many decades of existence. Very enjoyable and informative for children and adults alike.

Awesome great learning experience and great history figures!!!

Informative, small museum telling the story of the Houston police department.

It was reeeeeeally hard to squeeze out a third star. I think I gave it an extra one due to the respect I have for this policing agency. Plus I think someone is doing the museum a disservice by not maintaining it. For example, fallen down displays, curled up pictures, pictures completely upside down, cheap small area rugs as a base all take away from the message being shared by this museum with the great history of the Houston Police Department.Back up things for a minute to give you the full info on going here. Paid parking on the street is ampel during the weekdays. The museum is free. It is held in the Main Police Quarters, so you must go through a full TSA like scan of your personal items and person (metal detector and hand scanner). You then have to register your personal ID with the front desk. They scan your ID (Drivers license in my case; whew! for being clean), Passport for my friend (and they also took a picture of him) and then you proceed to the other side of the lobby where the museum is.The display cases are top of the line. The large items such as police motorcycle and donated mini-car are cool. The history is amazing with lots of donated items from waaaay back when. Fascinating evolvement that comes with industrialization and modernization were detailed with facts, pictures, uniforms, hats, actual weapons and stories aplenty. There is a complete wall display dedicated to the first responders of 9/11. It was somber and touching.You can spend an hour or more, at least, reading each article or description or even more.The problems begin if you are in to the details. I am a bit OCD so I notice things that likely dont pop up on other peoples radar. Written placards were laying about having fallen off of their perches. Often pictures or articles were matted but not framed, which allowed for the matting to age and curl. One three hole matted display looked like someone had cut the squares out with a hatchet or kids scissors. Seriously people. Mannequins wearing uniforms were standing on scattered cheap area rugs. One newspaper article in the 9/11 display was curled right over. There was a related article on that side but the main one on display was lost in the inefficient clamps meant to hold it in place. Which was the case in several cases.It was a privilege to see this museum and I loved the whole idea and history, but I was sad that more care was or is not taken to present the history in a manner befitting its honor and worth. Surely there must be a foundation that takes care of this museum?? Or $50 in the budget to fix things......(totally under-guessing Im sure)We were on a time crunch or I would have taken some time to let someone know about the displays. I hope someone with pull reads this review and lets the appropriate folks know.

A small but neat museum. Free of charge too.

This was a really sweet stop. The Houston police museum is definitely a must go if you are in town passing by. They have a lot of memorabilia , and a nice set up of history.Also it is free!Make sure to have your I.D. on you or passport. :)

Definitely a museum worth visiting. I love that its free and shows some cool history. It was smaller than I expected, which is fine. If youre bringing kids, also know that its not interactive. My kids got bored fast (theyre young). But Im glad we went!

Excellent museum. Free and very historic. Small and you need to go though a mental detector.

Small but very nice museum. A helicopter, an old Ford police car, and a couple of motorcycles are the highlights. Some old historical guns and badges. Some highlights from black and female officers.

Nice place, still a police department.

Very nice museum, the staff is very friendly!

Very awesome place to visit. Shows some true history about the HPD. Very awesome to learn and see some things.

I love this small but informational museum that can be visit during a lunch break.

Great people work here had to stop by to get my alumni ID

Well worth a visit cool place

Cool museum

Lots of interesting stuff to see

Tiny, TINY, TINY place. Plus, you must show ID to enter, but the worst & craziest part is they actually check to see if you have WARRANTS! I wonder how many parents have been arrested for traffic tickets right in front of their kids and family. Shameful. I mean really, how many criminals with open felony warrants are going into the museum which is inside HPD headquarters ... my guess is zero!

Never going back ther again I got arrested for nothing I was just walking by my intention was not to go inside but I needed to pee

No touching made this difficult with kids

Historic clean, next Hyatt and good shops.

Closed. Dumb.

Lot of history succinctly displayed and presented by Steve Duffy.

Historical overview of Houston Police

It was a quick walk through museum, Once you make it through the police with the xray machine and metal detectors. When walking around you get to see alot of old kool stuff including a helicopter and some old guns. If you are walking by I would stop in and take a look you will get a quick look at the history of Houston police and wont take up much of your time and non of your money.

Great little piece of Houstons finest on display. Enjoyed seeing the history behind HPD.

Very interesting and cool displays. Quick tour and free of charge.

Small museum but good quality exhibits including a police car and helicopter. Remember to bring your ID or they dont let you in.

Interesting display-vintage police car, real horse with dressed dummy rider, badges, vin tage photos, uniforms.

Me and cops dont mix well

The staff was very prompt and friendly with the service I needed. Thanks HPD

I liked the museum. Keep in mind that you need some form of ID to get in (passed, drivers license, etc)

3 stars because there is NO GIFT SHOP THERE? How do they expect to raise funds for police charities, etc.?

God bless you all bothers and sisters...

Great place to see

Need to make a full police checkin. Why???

Awesome History.

Heres a respectful salute.

Neat little museum full of uniforms, vehicles, photos and other memorabilia from a century-plus of Bayou City policing.

If you never been a great place to visit.

Nice

Good museum

Visited in 2014History of the local police force.