Meeting Sir Bobby Charlton
One of the burning desires of Insurance Museum is to encourage young people to think of Insurance as career of choice, rather than, like most… Read More »Meeting Sir Bobby Charlton
One of the burning desires of Insurance Museum is to encourage young people to think of Insurance as career of choice, rather than, like most… Read More »Meeting Sir Bobby Charlton
The Insurance Museum is celebrating the launch of the final gallery in the online exhibition, ‘Fire! Risk & Revelations’. ‘250 years of insurance fire brigades’… Read More »Launch of the new Insurance Museum online gallery, ‘250 years of insurance fire brigades’
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… 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.… 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… 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 –… 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… 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… 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… 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.… Read More »Object of the month