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Justice & Police Museum. Photograph Leo Rocker
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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 these people. Examine the ‘costumes‘ 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.

SYDNEY'S PUBS

A rich journey through Sydney’s pubs past and present.
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BREWERY TOUR COMP

Chuck Hahn, courtesy of Malt Shovel Brewery

Visit Sydney’s Pubs until Sunday October 19 to go in the draw to win one of four private tours of the Malt Shovel Brewery.

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From the Loft blog

FROM THE LOFT

Discover the new blog from the curators of the Justice & Police Museum.

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

Telephone: 02 9252 1144

Admission:

  •  Adult $8 I
  •  Child/Concession $4 |
  •  Family $17 |
  •  Members free |

Hours: Weekends 10am – 5pm | Open daily during school holidays | get detailed hours

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