This was our interactive
exhibition for summer 2008.
Were you brave enough to be tried in a
Victorian courtroom or enter the Medieval torture chamber?
Visitors got the chance to learn about hideous
crimes and fabulously foul punishments and meet some of our most
notorious criminals in this monstrously murderous exhibition.
You could find out why Mary Queen of Scots was
executed near Peterborough and come face-to-face with Mary as she
wrote her last letter.
You could confront Dick Turpin and Jack the
Ripper in our rogues gallery and find out more about the local
Gunpowder plotters.
Or perhaps you tested your detective skills in
the forensic lab and saw what it is feels like to be imprisoned in
a jail cell.
If you were lucky we let you out again...
During the summer holidays we had
costumed interpreters in the gallery daily, so you may have found
yourself being held up by a Highwayman or sentenced by a
Judge...
Many of Peterborough’s most popular cultural and sporting
facilities are part of Vivacity, an independent,
not-for-profit organisation with charitable status.
Find out more about
the trust on the Vivacity website.