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
Europe
Examples of the torture museums in Europe include:
- Torture Exhibition near Castelul Corvinilor in Hunedoara, Romania
- Museo della Tortura di Siena in Siena, Italy
- the Torture Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands;
- Torture Museum in San Marino;
- 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;
- Medieval Torture Museum in El Castell de Guadalest, Spain
- Block 10 and 11 of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland.
- and the Tortureum - Museum of Torture in Zagreb, Croatia
The Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments was opened in 2012 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It uses human size wax figures to increase the interactive learning of what the Dark Ages considered to be torture.[1]
Asia
Examples of the torture museums in Asia include:
North America
The largest interactive torture museum in the United States:
- The Medieval Torture Museum in the cities of Saint Augustine (FL) and Chicago (IL).
References
- "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
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