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A museum can be located in a newly constructed building, or in a building whose history has no connection to museum operations. The history of the Emergency Preparedness Museum is different. In 1997, the museum director Johan Andrée was given the opportunity to start a museum in the old Helsingborg Battery facility. The facility needed to be brought back to life and extensive research was required for the museum to be started. Today, the facility is very well documented throughout the entire period that the facility was in operation, from 1940 to 1990. Research work has continued as a natural and integrated part of the Emergency Preparedness Museum's operations. The goal of the research is to convey it further through exhibitions, written material and guided tours.

Currently, extensive work is being conducted based on the refugee graves at Pålsjö cemetery, Helsingborg. Responsible for the research activities of the Museum of Preparedness is the museum director Johan Andrée, historian MA. One of Johan Andrée's research areas concerns the Holocaust. In his master's thesis, he explains, among other things, how and why we in Sweden began to use the term Holocaust instead of the internationally accepted term Holocaust. The research will continue at the Museum of Preparedness.

If you would like to support the Museum of Emergency Preparedness' work with research, we welcome donations to Bankgiro 5265-1638, or via Swish 123 283 10 55. Mark your donation with the word "Research" if you want your donation to only cover research costs.

Below is a selection of the Emergency Preparedness Museum's research areas and the actual results that the research has resulted in.