Collection Spotlight

No matter how big or small, every artifact tells a story. While only a fraction of the objects and images in the Museum's collection, these eye-catching artifacts capture significant moments in the history of drugs and drug law enforcement.

A trade card advertising Dr. Isaac Thompson’s Celebrated Eye Water.

Dr. Isaac Thompson’s Celebrated Eye Water Trade Card

A trade card advertising Dr. Isaac Thompson’s Celebrated Eye Water, an opium-containing patent medicine.

A bound notebook.

Diversion Logbook

A diversion investigator’s logbook with two decades of case information.

DEA Special Agent Badge

DEA Special Agent Badge

A gold and blue DEA special agent badge featuring an American bald eagle.

Three different paperback booklets.

DEA publications

DEA publications that informed the American public and professionals around the world in the 1970s.

Items from cross-border smuggling tunnels

Cross-Border Smuggling Tunnels

These materials came from tunnels used to smuggle thousands of pounds of marijuana into the United States.

Cocaine Mold

Cocaine Mold

A wooden mold used to press cocaine syrup or powder into solid bricks.

Ceramic Elephant

Ceramic Elephant

A ceramic elephant gifted to DEA by Thai royalty.

Credentials issued in 1944 to Robert S. O'Brien

Bureau of Narcotics Credentials

Credentials issued in 1944 to Robert S. O'Brien, Agent, Federal Bureau of Narcotics.

dark bronze plaque with BNDD seal

Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Plaque

Beretta 92F 9MM Parabellum Pistol

Beretta 92F 9MM Parabellum Pistol

A diamond-encrusted pistol discovered in one of Joaquín “El Chapo” Archivaldo Guzmán Loera’s safe houses.