Christmas
![Two half pig carcasses placed on a wooden chair with tags reading, EXHIBITS - To be kept for evidence.](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2023/12/de187d83de0e481da32fad254b21deee.jpg)
A Christmas crime
As Christmas approached, the Magistrates at the Water Police Court, now the Justice & Police Museum, were often faced with a very seasonal crime – the theft of Christmas hams
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Bessie Rouse’s scrap album & the first Australian Christmas cards
A nineteenth-century scrap album, carefully stored in a bookcase at Rouse Hill Estate, holds hidden treasure – if you know what you’re looking at
![Christmas-Garland-thumb.jpg](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/0872150acff3455da2cbd1d4d1c991d9.jpg)
Activities
How to make Christmas ornaments
Get crafty this Christmas with some homemade ornaments for your tree