There is a last chance to visit the Crime and Punishment exhibition during the week beginning Monday, October 27.

Children can learn about hideous crimes and foul punishments and meet some of our most notorious criminals in the exhibition.

For half-term, the museum will also be decorated for Halloween to make it even more creepy, with cobwebs, spiders and skeletons.

The upstairs section of the museum will be decorated as a haunted house, and visitors will be able to see a ghost appear, and find out the Victorian science behind this special effect, then design their own monster to go in the haunted forest.

There will also be a range of craft activities with a Halloween theme.

Each weekday there will be a craft workshop from 10.30am until 12.30pm, with drop-in crafts throughout the day. Crafts include making your own pop-up ghost or Halloween decorations.

There will also be a spooky trail around the museum building, costing 50p per child.

The museum in Priestgate in the city centre is open from 10am until 5pm, Monday to Saturday, and noon until 4pm on Sundays. Admission is free.