Torture museum

A torture museum is a museum that exhibits instruments of torture and provides tutorials on the history of torture and its use in human society. Several museums dedicated to the history of torture are located in Europe.

Torture museums

Examples of the torture museums in Europe include:

• Museo della Tortura di Siena in Siena, Italy;
• the Torture Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands;
• Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments, Amsterdam, Netherlands;
• the Torture Museum Oude Steen in Bruges, Belgium;
• the Mediaeval Torture Museum (Mittelalterliches Foltermuseum) in Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany;
• the Medieval Crime Museum (das Kriminalmuseum) in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany;
• the Medieval Criminal and Torture Museum (Museo della Tortura e di Criminologia Medievale) in San Gimignano, Italy;
• the Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments in Prague, Czech Republic;
• the Torture Museum in Santillana del Mar, Spain;
• the Torture Museum (Foltermuseum auf Burg Sommereck) in Spittal an der Drau, Austria;
• and the Tortureum - Museum of Torture in Zagreb, Croatia.

The Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments was opened in 2012. It uses human size wax figures to increase the interactive learning of what the Dark Ages considered to be torture.[1]

See also

• Medieval instruments of torture
• Torture chamber

References

1. "Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments Amsterdam". Torture Museum Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2015.

External links

• Torture Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Torture Museum Oude Steen in Bruges, Belgium
• Medieval Criminal and Torture Museum (Museo della Tortura e di Criminologia Medievale) in San Gimignano, Italy
• Museo Criminale Mediovale
• Medieval Crime Museum in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany