The Justice Project has partnered with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) for activities centered at the new Melbourne Justice Museum.

The Justice Museum integrates the Old Melbourne Gaol Cell Block, the Watch House, and City Court 1 of the former Magistrates’ Court building in Russell Street. The museum is a chance to experience the complex issues of law and justice in the Victorian community – past, present and future.

Major themes for museum exhibitions and programs include human rights, citizenship and justice. The themes reflect contemporary community interests, without losing touch with the original purpose of the buildings and the people who worked or were held in them.

The museum development is supported by a partnership between the Department of Justice, the Department for Victorian Communities and the Victoria Law Foundation, with funding through the Victorian Government Community Support Fund (CSF).

The Justice Project is helping to develop educational material for the multimedia exhibition courtroom in the Justice Museum.  The museum is currently open to school groups and is due to open to the public in early 2007. 

The Justice Project volunteers have already made significant inroads to developing educational experiences for delivery at the Justice Museum and in follow up classroom activities.  Synergies with the Civics and Citizenship components of the school curriculum are explored.   The objective of the project is for young Victorians to consider questions of access, equity, respresetnation, dissent and rule of law, as it affects them in their lives.