What's on
From events including issues-focused free exhibitions and stimulating free workshops, join the discussions, gain valuable insights and enjoy a fun and memorable experience. We also have regular daily performances - click here to find out more.
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Exhibition:
From Monday 28 July 2025 - March 2026
30 Objects Representing…
Chosen by staff and the communities they work with, 30 Objects Representing Justice invites you to explore what justice looks like through a powerful selection of artefacts from the National Justice…

Project Lab
Exhibition:
Wednesday 8 October until January 2025
Project Lab - Professor…
To celebrate Black History Month, we are honoured to profile Professor Veronica Pickering MBS HAC in our Project Lab.

Event:
Monday 20 October - Sunday 2 November 2025
October Half Term Activities
Join us this October for an amazing selection of activities around the National Justice Museum.

Halloween
Event:
Selected dates from Thursday 23 - Friday 31 October, 4.30pm & 5pm
Kids' Ghost Hunter Tours
Our resident ghost hunter needs your help to catch the pesky ghosts this October at the National Justice Museum.

Halloween
Event:
Select dates from Thursday 23 to Friday 31 October 2025, 6pm, 6:20pm, 6:40pm, 7pm, 7:20pm
Fright Nights: Dead Man…
Fright Nights are back for 2025! Are you brave enough to walk the halls of a real Victorian gaol after nightfall? What might be waiting for you in the darkness...?

Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 24 October, 10am-12pm
Abolitionist Ceramics
Join us this Black History Month for a creative ceramics workshop inspired by abolitionist ceramics. Discover how clay objects once carried powerful messages of freedom and justice, then hand-build…

Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 31 October, 10am-12pm
Ghosts and Echoes
Imagine all that’s left of you is a chalk white plaster face. Can the details of a life be captured on the surface, or is there still a voice underneath? This Halloween at the National Justice…

Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 7 November, 10am-12pm
Reframing Identity: From…
Join artist Marcia Porto to explore the expressive possibilities of monotype printmaking.

Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 14 November, 10am-12pm
Words of Reformation
Obedience, objectification and servitude – reflect on a woman’s place in society now and in the 19th Century, by producing a modern embroidery inspired by traditional samplers.

Crime Club
Crime talk
Event:
Thursday 20 November 2025, 6pm
Crime Club: Georgian…
To celebrate our 30th Anniversary and the 30th Crime Club event, we’re taking a step back in time! We’re bringing back our very first Crime Club event from 2019. If you missed it six years ago,…

Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 21 November, 10am-12pm
The Ominous Times
Inspired by the text and typeface in the latest exhibition, join Chris Barker and The Smallprint Co to explore the world of Victorian printing and customise your own penny broadsheet newspaper.

Christmas
Murder Mystery
Event:
Thursday 27 November - Saturday 20 December 2025, 6pm
Oh Come All Ye Dreadful: A…
Step into the Dark Underworld of 1930s Nottingham: A Murder Mystery You Won’t Forget!

Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 28 November, 10am-12pm
Make Your Mark
Inspired by the museum's collection of badges, insignia and ideas of justice and protest, this workshop will enable participants to experiment and play with a variety of printmaking processes from…

Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 5 December, 10am-12pm
Textures of Justice
Explore textures and details in the National Justice Museum’s collection and create a grid of collages inspired by what you see. Using fabric, buttons, ribbon, and paper, you’ll make a tactile…

Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 12 December, 10am-12pm
Lighting Up The Holidays
Up until 1853, prisoners in the county gaol would have to buy candles to light up their cells. Join us in this candle-making workshop where you’ll make a candle, a tin candle, and wax melts with soy…

Cocktails and Crime
Christmas
Murder Mystery
Event:
Wednesday 31 December 2025, 7pm
NYE Cocktails and Crime: Go…
Welcome to the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll divorce showdown... with a twist!