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

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