National Justice Museum

HM Prison Service Museum Collection, the Rainer Foundation Archive, and the Ross Simms Historic Police Collection.
Based in Nottingham
Our impressive collection is made up of over 40 000 objects and archives. It is the UK’s largest collection relating to law, justice, crime and punishment.

Some of our most well known items include:
Playwright Oscar Wilde’s cell door
Gibbet irons
Force feeding equipment used on Suffragettes and conscientious objectors
Great Train Robbery evidence
The dock from Bow Street Magistrates Court, which was used in notorious cases such as the trials of Oscar Wilde, Roger Casement and the Krays

Convict transportation
Australia
Love tokens
Dock court house
capital punishment
branding iron