Members Hour: Justice & Police Museum

Welcome to Members Hour: Justice & Police Museum.

Step into a dark world of crime, policing and punishment within a historic Sydney police station and courthouses. Hear from our museum expert about the objects and mugshots on display, including stories to emerge from the Water Police Station.

Complete your day with a delicious lunch at This Way Canteen, located at the Museum of Sydney, where members enjoy 10% off dining. Members also receive a 10% discount in our museum shops.

Members Hour provides members with exclusive access to our properties.

Bookings essential. Registrations open soon.

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Corner Albert and Phillip streets, Sydney NSW 2000

Justice & Police Museum

Corner Albert and Phillip streets, Sydney NSW 2000
  • Wheelchair accessible
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  • Saturday 31 May 9am–10am

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Groundbreaking crimes from the archives

Within the sandstone walls of the Justice & Police Museum are countless stories of crime, courage and justice – some famous, many forgotten

From Water Police Office to museum

The complex that now houses the Justice & Police Museum was once one of the colony’s busiest legal hubs, with a daily parade of offenders – and the odd goat. Additions and improvements mark the evolution of the site’s function as courts and police station

Flat out access: unfolding the parchment pardon of Samuel Henry Horne

The conservators at the Western Sydney Records Centre treat items from across Museums of History NSW collections. A recent example is the 1832 absolute pardon of convict Samuel Henry Horne

Women police in NSW: a history of firsts

A collection of photographs at the Justice & Police Museum document the hard-won firsts, beginning in 1915, that led to women attaining equal status within the NSW Police Force