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Step into the dark side of Sydney’s past with a visit to the Water Police station and courts that once made up one of the city’s busiest legal hubs. Crooks and cops, thugs and judges, locals and drifters, the guilty and the innocent have all left their stories here. With its 1890s holding cells, offices, charge room and courts, the museum draws you into a world of crime, punishment and policing, from bushrangers, sly grog and razor gangs to forensics. A vast archive of crime scene photography and mug shots reveal more than a century of underworld Sydney.
News from Justice & Police Museum
Media release
Reflections on IdentityThursday 4 February 2021
New online
Year in review: 2020Wednesday 3 February 2021
News
Update on COVID-19Monday 16 March 2020
International Women's Day
Women's stories, women's livesFriday 6 March 2020
School holidays
Summer 2019: school holiday opening hoursTuesday 27 November 2018
WW1: stories from our museums
Often poignant and sometimes heartbreaking, the stories reveal combatants, pacifists, patriotic fundraisers and anti-war activists, explore broader narratives of patriotism and expressions of jingoism, and touch on the aftermath of war and the memorialisation of those who enlisted.