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…

Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 3 October, 10am-12pm
30 Images Representing Justice
If you had to describe the museum in 30 images, what would you photograph? Join the National Justice Museum team to create a photo album and a story of what the museum means to you.

Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 10 October, 10am-12pm
Embroidered Objects
Create a piece of embroidered and embellished cloth in an embroidery hoop depicting one object from our exhibition ’30 Objects Representing Justice’.

Make It Yours
Workshop:
Friday 17 October, 10am-12pm
Playing at Mugshots
The 30 Objects Representing Justice exhibition has an object that has made its way into everyday language - the mugshot. Create your own mugshot playing card, based on the craze in the early 2000’s…

Halloween
Event:
Selected dates from Thursday 23 - Friday 31 October, 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…