Members Hour: Justice & Police Museum

Welcome to Members Hour: Justice & Police Museum.

With the museum all to yourself, step into a dark world of crime, policing and punishment within a historic Sydney police station and courthouses. Enjoy a members-only talk from our museum expert about the objects and mugshots on display, and hear fascinating stories from the former Water Police Station.

Complete your visit with a delicious morning tea at This Way Canteen, located close by at the Museum of Sydney, where members enjoy 10% off dining.

Members also receive a 10% discount in all our museum shops.

Members Hour provides members with special access to our museums and experts.

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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  • Wednesday 1 July 9am–10am

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Justice & Police Museum stories

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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