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Explore amazing collections
Encouraging debate. Stimulating minds. Inspiring quiet reflection. We’ve seen as many different reactions to the amazing objects, artefacts and documents we hold, as there are items in our 40,000 strong collection.
Unique to the UK, if not the world, you can explore these carefully preserved items, for their place in history, for their impact on society.
Standing in This Place
The National Justice Museum will be the custodians of a new bronze sculpture, Standing in This Place, which is the first piece of public art that the National Justice Museum has acquired.
The piece is the work of sculptor Rachel Carter and community history group the Legacy Makers and depicts two women in period costume - an enslaved woman working in the American cotton fields and a white woman working in the East Midlands’s textile mills.
Standing in this Place will be the UK’s first sculpture to recognise this transatlantic story as well as addressing the imbalance that less than 5% of Britain’s sculptures portray non-royal women. The site for the statue is already clearly marked in the recently opened Green Heart public park, adjacent to Nottingham’s Central Library.
