 Operators also run several features , including the candlelit Hangman 's Night Tour ( with actors portraying prolific and brutal hangman Michael Gateley ) , and the daily Watch House Experience ; an interactive performance in which visitors are treated as the prisoners would have been during its operation . In 2010 , the Old Melbourne Gaol Crime and Justice Experience won the heritage and cultural tourism category at the Qantas Australian Tourism Awards in Hobart . 
