Chairman’s Message

Each day that goes by I get more excited about the prospects of the Insurance Museum project succeeding. Jonathan Squirrell and his team at OB Brand Consulting have completed the fourth online fire insurance gallery in… Read More »Chairman’s Message

Underlying the development of fire insurance and firefighting that we have covered in our online exhibition, Fire! Risk and Revelation, is the humble fire bucket. We have featured buckets many times in the galleries and… Read More »The Humble Fire Bucket

By George Worby ‘James Braidwood should be recognised as one of the top 100 Brits of all time.’ I was going to Edinburgh for a city break and when the opportunity to have a James… Read More »James Braidwood: A Walking Tour of Edinburgh

As we are now in Black History Month, I’m reminded of one of the more interesting companies featured in my insurance picture postcard collection – the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company. The Company was the… Read More »Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company of Chicago

Powered by the Industrial Revolution is the third in a series of online galleries from the Insurance Museum’s Fire! Risk and Revelations exhibition. The gallery which is now live, explores how fire insurance companies responded… Read More »Powered by the Industrial Revolution 1760 – 1823 gallery goes live

In my last Chairman’s Message, I referred to our ambition to open a Mini-Museum in EC3, City of London, to start our work engaging with audiences and telling the global story of insurance. With all… Read More »Chairman’s Message

When the Industrial Revolution arrived, fire insurance practices were not fit for purpose to keep up with the inventions, innovations and new processes. Large mills and factories were being built across the country, new machinery… Read More »History feature – Significant Fires in the Industrial Revolution

In May, the Brazilian museum community celebrated the 21st National Week of Museums. We joined up with the programme and partnered with Memória MAG Seguros. This article, by Alberto Machado, is about the digitised archives… Read More »Object of the month

By Sandra McDonald, President of the Insurance Institute of Manchester In April 2023, the Insurance Museum exhibited at a special conference to celebrate 150 years of the Insurance Institute of Manchester (IIM). The IIM was… Read More »Insurance Institute of Manchester, 150 years