Justice and Police Museum

Justice & Police Museum    

4.3/5
(262) · Museum in Sydney, Australia
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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 …
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 Justice and Police 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.

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Mar 14, 2025
What a great museum. It’s just around the corner from Circular Quay and we took the LRT from Town Hall to get there. As recommended on their website, I prebooked a time to arrive. We spent just over …Full review by 86calgary
Dec 13, 2024
Old justice building with a lot of rather spartan displays but there's good stuff there on the strange crimes of old Sydney. Especially good as it's now free.Full review by mrdom
Nov 23, 2024
Excellent little museum with informative guided tour, followed by wandering around the rooms. The interviews with police photographers and the numbers of photographs of criminals from 1910 through th…Full review by francesd466

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What’s the gift shop like... if any, as a collector of keychains and touristy things.... this feels important to know
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Cannot really remember detail but I suspect the usual stuff for kids like fake chains and handcuffs and fridge magnets etc.
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Answer by Alan R · Feb 13, 2020
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Hi I am wanting to visit the Justice and Police Museum at The Rocks in a couple of weeks with a friend, and am …
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Hi I am wanting to visit the Justice and Police Museum at The Rocks in a couple of weeks with a friend, and am interested in a tour if possible. I can't find any info on tour times,only that it is $10 admission. Can anyone help Thanks Bronte
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Couldn’t see anything about tours when we visited sorry... hopefully the museum might reply with some info for you.
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Answer by Richard A · Apr 17, 2019
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