The Newsroom

Season’s greetings from the DEA Museum! The 2022 holiday schedule is now available. Navigate your way to a new experience and plan your visit today.

The Museum’s traveling exhibit Drugs: Costs and Consequences is back on the road, touring the United States. On September 7, 2022, the exhibit opened at the West Virginia State Museum in Charleston. Its eye-opening, interactive, and updated displays will welcome visitors through January 2023, when it’s off to its next destination: Albany, Georgia.

Loops, whorls, and arches, oh my! In August, the Museum hosted its first in-person fingerprinting program in its reimagined education space. Students participated in one of two new hands-on programs on the science and history behind DEA’s work.

In the mid-1990s, DEA unveiled a Wall of Honor memorializing employees who died in the line of duty. Retired Special Agent Richard Barrett tracked down eight portraits missing from the display, recovering the last image in 2022.

An expert panel discussion on the environmental impact of illegal drug production streams live today at 1:30 p.m. EDT.

The DEA Museum recently acquired a submersible tube that concealed cocaine under a cargo ship bound for Puerto Rico. Learn why this object and other smuggling tools are important additions to the Museum’s growing collection.

DEA Museum staff members have a heavy lift – 32 crates on two tractor-trailer rigs! The Museum’s traveling exhibit, Drugs: Costs and Consequences, has been in storage because of the pandemic. Now, it’s being updated and prepared for a new venue: the West Virginia State Museum in Charleston, West Virginia.

An expert panel discussion on the environmental impact of illegal drug production. The program will stream live June 22, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. EDT.

A conversation with DEA’s experts on the fentanyl and fake pills crisis streams live today at 1 p.m. EST.

Deputy Director Steve Stuart interviewed retired agents and employees at the annual Association of Federal Narcotics Agents (AFNA) conference, including former DEA Administrator Peter Bensinger.