The ribbon cutting for the new Michigan State Police Museum and Learning Center takes place tomorrow morning in Dimondale. WKAR’s Katie Cook reports.
A project roughly five years in the making, the Michigan State Police Museum and Learning Center will officially open Wednesday on the first floor of MSP Headquarters.
Captain of the MSP Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division Mike Krumm is president of the Museum Committee. He says says their goal was to give a snapshot of the Michigan State Police through all 101 years of their history, back to their foundation in the Upper Peninsula as a result of labor unrest at the copper mines.
“We have an early 1950s patrol car, we have a current patrol car which is really a simulator, we have a crime scene, we have many of the old uniforms we used to wear, we have a saddle from the years when troopers rode horseback, and just many things that try to tie in the past with current police practices and try to make it an interactive museum,” says Krumm.
The space will be open to the public every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for walk-ins and school group tours, and admission is free.
