The highlight of the day was the Old Melbourne Gaol. This is a combined ticket with the Police Watchtower Experience, where you get to tour a Police City Watch Station set up as when it closed in the 1990's.
That was fun, but the Gaol is fantastic. Most of the cells contain a mini-museum on particular inhabitants of the prison, many with copies of the death mask taken after their execution. It's a grisly thrill, mixed in with changing ideas about what the gaol should be used for as Australia moved from frontier outpost to modern country.

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