Justice & Police Museum. Photograph (c) Leo Rocker

Justice & Police Museum

The courtroom, designed by colonial architect James Barnet in 1886, is where you can experience the pomp and the power of the law. Stand within the spiked metal dock where offenders faced the wrath of the magistrate. Or sit behind the magistrate’s bench and think about passing judgment on others. Examine the robes and wigs, hallowed by tradition and symbolic of legal authority, then sentence yourself to a visit to the Crime & Punishment Room where the history of imprisonment in NSW is memorably evoked. Inspect the artefacts of corporal and capital punishment, among them a leather lash, a hangman’s noose, an isolation mask, a mouth gag, and various manacles, cuffs and physical restraints – all of them instruments of past inhumanity or of justified cruelty depending on your perspective.

WICKED WOMEN

'Murder by the book (Tara Moss)', 2010, Rosemary Valadon © Rosemary Valadon, photograph Peter Adams

Award-winning artist Rosemary Valadon’s latest exhibition, Wicked Women, features portraits of contemporary women inspired by the pulp fiction era.

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Address: Cnr Albert and Phillip Streets, Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW 2000

Contact: 02 9252 1144 or for Education bookings: 8313 5612

Admission:

  •  Adult $10 I
  •  Child/Concession $5 |
  •  Family $20 |
  •  Members free

Hours: Open Saturday and Sunday 10am – 5pm | Closed Good Friday and Christmas Day

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