‘Stretched to the Limit’ is Steel Door Studios' first solo show of a body of work. This series of evocative pieces shines a floodlight on a prison system in crisis. Spiralling overcrowding,…

Pieces of Me: Stories from Nottingham brings together the voices of refugees and asylum seekers living in Nottingham through art, poetry, textiles, and storytelling.

This new exhibition explores the changing role of work in prison. Using a striking combination of objects and historical photographs from the National Justice Museum’s collections, this exhibition…

An immersive, multiple-choice escape room from the National Justice Museum!

Inspired by Victorian and Edwardian prison work on household linen, this embroidery workshop invites you to stitch nature inspired motifs onto a cotton handkerchief; just as prisoners would have done.

Trial using hand-held looms with warping threads and string, and learning basic weaving techniques.

Taking basket weaving as a metaphor, this workshop will look at contemporary forms and approaches to creative pieces around the themes of purpose and hope, using a variety of colours, textures, and…

Join us this August for an amazing selection of activities around the National Justice Museum as part of our very Victorian summer!

Find out how transportation to America differs from the later penal system established to Australia in Crime Club: Transportation to America.

In the latest instalment of Crime Club, we travel back to the eighteenth century, an age of brutal punishments, public executions, and harsh justice.

Head back to the 90s with our murder mystery, where you are a guest at a new magazine launch party.

For Heritage Open Day, we’re delighted to open one of our rarely seen spaces to the public – our beautiful Civil Courtroom – for a family friendly mock trial.

For Heritage Open Day, meet our Matron and discover what life was like for female prisoners in our gaol.

It’s December of 1953, and you’ve been invited to a Christmas murder mystery dinner at the Shire Hall, which the Broadmarsh Players AmDram Society* will perform.