Justice and Police Museum - 'Crooked'

The Justice and Police Museum was built as Sydney's Water Police Station. Completed in 1886, it was designed by colonial architect Edmund Blacket and built out of the local sandstone.

These days, as a Sydney Living Museum with heritage status, it holds the only public collection of artefacts in NSW relating to its history of crime, law and policing. The museum conducts interpretive tours, events and exhibitions of relevant photographs, including one from the archive of forensic photography. Utterly fascinating, although some of the images were macabre.

Other terrific exhibitions were Crooks Like Us and City of Shadows, showing photos from police records of characters and their stories from Sydney's dark underbelly in the 1920s and 30s. The life-size cut out images in my blip come from these collections. Mostly these diverse groups of people, though leading 'crooked' lives, looked like they would be good fun types with lots of interesting tales to tell.

Thank you to all of you lovely blippers who responded so generously to my yesterday's blip of the dwarf green tree frog. I'm glad the little critter had so much appeal.

Thanks for hosting again, Bob.