An event occurring in the waters of the North Sea on 6th July 1988, is recognised by many in the insurance profession as the largest loss faced by the insurance market, in terms of lives… Read More »The Piper Alpha Disaster 1988

The Insurance Museum has started the year well with a series of events and talks. In February we spoke at the Insurance Institute for London’s Young Members’ Committee. Three of the Museum team presented different… Read More »Events and talks

Insurance education and the future insurance workforce is at the heart of the Insurance Museum’s thinking. So little is known outside our sector about what we insurers do and how important we are to society… Read More »Chairman’s Message – Spring 2024

  Welcome to Crawford & Company We are delighted to welcome the Museum’s newest corporate partner, Crawford and Company who have pledged to support the Museum over the next three years. Crawford is the largest… Read More »Fundraising update

From its early beginnings in a coffee house in Tower Street (now Great Tower Street) London, to the iconic Richard Rogers’ designed building of today, much has been written and is known of the history… Read More »Candle Auctions

As 2023 draws to a close and Christmas holidays loom, I look back with pride on the achievements made by all the team at Insurance Museum. We now have 5 ‘online galleries’ in our ‘virtual… Read More »Chairman’s Christmas Message

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 of us, a career of chance. The recent death of… 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’ explores the impact James Braidwood had on the history of… 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 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