‘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.

Explore the world of printing and customise your own penny broadsheet newspaper.

This Refugee Week, the National Justice Museum is hosting a half-day museum takeover with Refugee Roots, to celebrate the launch of the Museum’s new Project Lab display ‘Pieces of Me: Stories from…

Exploring the idea of treasured tools, taking the mundane everyday items we couldn’t do without and how we might embellish them with a charm or personalised detail to celebrate their worth or how a…

Victorian Britain produced many notorious criminals, but few captured the public imagination or troubled the police quite like Charlie Peace.

Create ceramic chain links exploring hidden labour and prison work. Inspired by historical and contemporary practices, this hands-on workshop invites participants to reflect on how everyday products…

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…

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

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

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.