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Uniforms and helmets along a corridor in the Tayside Police Museum.
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Tayside Police Museum

A free museum of policing in Tayside in the old police station on Reform Street, Kirriemuir, with its original cells, uniforms and equipment.

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On Reform Street in Kirriemuir, the town's old police station has become a museum of policing, and the cells where prisoners were once locked up are part of the visit.

The Tayside Police Museum tells the story of the police in Dundee, Perth and Kinross and Angus, from the first forces of the early 1800s to the present day.

The rooms and corridors are filled with the things of the job through the years: uniforms and helmets, truncheons and handcuffs, radios and equipment, photographs and records of old cases. It is run together by Police Scotland, Angus Council and the Kirriemuir Heritage Trust, and entry is free.

Kirriemuir makes a good day out around it, with J.M. Barrie's birthplace a few streets away and the Angus glens opening to the north.

Round the cornerJ.M. Barrie's BirthplaceThe cottage where the author of Peter Pan was born.1 min by roadSee itA verdigris statue overlooks a walled garden and sandstone house
Before you go

Free.

The museum keeps its own opening days, on its site.

Where
Reform Street, Kirriemuir DD8 4BS.
Where it is

On Reform Street in the middle of Kirriemuir.

Close byKirriemuir.
  1. Red box of assorted sweets from Star Rock Shop, including humbugs, tablet and candy canesThe Star Rock ShopUnder a mile1 min by road
  2. Glamis CastleGlamis CastleThe castle of the Earls of Strathmore.5 miles11 min by road
  3. Ink illustration of stone cottages with "The Bothy Experience" painted on a gable endGin Bothy ExperienceA gin tasting room in a whitewashed bothy in Glamis village, pouring the Gin Bothy's own gins with mixers and the story of bothy life.5 miles9 min by road
  4. The red door of Glamis Gallery among the ivy of the old cottages.Glamis GalleryA gallery of Scottish art and craft in five old workers' cottages in Glamis village, with working studios, opened in 2019.5 miles9 min by road
  5. The stone front of the Meffan Museum on West High Street, Forfar.Meffan Museum & Art GalleryForfar's museum and art gallery.6 miles11 min by road
Directions
A verdigris statue overlooks a walled garden and sandstone houseAttractionsJ.M. Barrie's BirthplaceA step away
Ruined stone gable with empty windows beside a glass-cased Pictish cross-slabAttractionsThe Eassie Stone6.1 miles
Nàdair, AngusAngusNàdairSleeps 6 · 6.2 miles
AttractionsForfar Castle6.4 miles
Sandstone tower on a hilltop, surrounded by heather and forestry belowAttractionsKirriemuir7.2 miles
Roofless stone walls and wall tombs enclose a grassy ruined church interiorAttractionsRestenneth Priory7.8 miles
Glass cake stands display Crunchie Tiffin, Raspberry Brownie and Summer Berry Victoria Sponge on a farm shop counterCafeThe Wandering Bear Cafe7.8 miles
Two donkeys standing side by side in a fenced field with buttercupsAttractionsMurton Farm & Nature Reserve8.5 miles
Farm café with beamed ceiling, mismatched chairs and cakes under glass domesCafePeel Farm9.6 miles
Stay nearby

Places to stay near the museum, and when each is next free.

Nàdair, AngusNàdair
  • Sleeps 6
  • In Angus
  • 5 miles from the Police Museum
Free 4–6 DecThe whole of Larch House across its meadow: the larch-clad gable and long roof with roof lights, the lower wing beside it, a ring of river stones in the grass and oaks behind.Larch House
  • Sleeps 6
  • In Blairgowrie
  • 16 miles from the Police Museum
Check datesA stone cottage with a green door and three chimneys sits behind a lawn bordered by shrubs and flowerbeds.Fairygreen Cottage
  • Sleeps 4
  • In Angus
  • 17 miles from the Police Museum
Check datesGuests raise wine glasses at a long candlelit table in a stone barnGuardswell Farm
  • Sleeps 10
  • In Inchture
  • 18 miles from the Police Museum
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