Old Melbourne Gaol Information

Summary

Ned Kelly was executed at the Gaol on 11 November 1880, aged 25. Shortly before his death, Kelly reportedly uttered the famous words "Such is life". Displays include the condemned cell and gallows scene and a suit of armour worn at Glenrowan during the "last stand" shoot out with police.

Case studies provide a fascinating glimpse of what conditions were like for the hardened criminals who were housed here between 1841 and 1929. The Gaol is Victoria's oldest surviving prison.

 

Old Melbourne Gaol

Ned's Cell

Ned's Mask

Vist the Old Melbourne Gaol

Experience the chilling environment inside the thick and forbidding walls of Victoria's oldest surviving remand prison. Gain an insight into prison life in a model 19th century gaol. Ned Kelly, the infamous bushranger, is one of 136 men and women who were hanged on the Gaol's scaffold. See the Hangman's box, The Particulars of Execution Book and other exhibitions on the grim period of Victoria's history. View the death masks used in the study of phrenology to predict criminal behaviour - including Ned Kelly's death mask.

Open daily 9.30 am to 4.30 pm. Closed Good Friday and Christmas Day.

Contact National Trust of Australia (Victoria), Russell St, Melbourne 3000.
Phone (03) 9663 7228