Crime and Punishment Exhibition
12 July - 9 November 2008
Our new
interactive exhibition for summer 2008.
Are you brave enough to be tried in a Victorian courtroom or enter the Medieval torture chamber?
Learn about hideous crimes and fabulously foul punishments and
meet some of our most notorious criminals in this monstrously
murderous exhibition.
Find out why Mary Queen of Scots was executed near
Peterborough and come face-to-face with Mary as she writes her last
letter.
Confront Dick Turpin and Jack the Ripper in our rogues gallery
and find out more about the local Gunpowder plotters.
Test your detective skills in the forensic lab and see what it
is feels like to be imprisoned in a jail cell.
If you are lucky we might let you out again...
During the summer holidays we will have costumed interpreters
in the gallery daily, so you may find yourself being held up by a
Highwayman or sentenced by a Judge...
Have a go at our detective's trail around the area; solve the
clues hidden all around Peterborough.Finish by 28 September and you
could win a prize!
We have some very special schools
sessions for this exhibition too...