Torture museum explained

A torture museum is a museum that exhibits instruments of torture and provides an insight on the history of torture and its use in human society. Several museums dedicated to the history of torture are located worldwide, but a higher amount are concentrated in Europe.^[1]

Torture museums

Europe

Examples of the torture museums in Europe include:

• In Spain:
  • Museo de la Tortura in Toledo, Spain
  • Galeria de la Inquisicion in Cordoba, Spain
  • Torture Museum in Santillana del Mar, Spain
  • Medieval Torture Museum in El Castell de Guadalest, Spain
• In Germany
  • Mediaeval Torture Museum (Mittelalterliches Foltermuseum) in Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany
  • Medieval Crime Museum (das Kriminalmuseum) in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
• In Italy
  • Museo della Tortura di Siena in Siena, Italy
  • Medieval Criminal and Torture Museum (Museo della Tortura e di Criminologia Medievale) in San Gimignano, Italy
• In Netherlands
  • Torture Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Torture Museum (Foltermuseum auf Burg Sommereck) in Spittal an der Drau, Austria
• Torture Museum Oude Steen in Bruges, Belgium
• Tortureum Museum of Torture in Zagreb, Croatia
• Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments in Prague, Czech Republic
• Block 10 and 11 of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland
• Torture Exhibition near Castelul Corvinilor in Hunedoara, Romania
• Torture Museum in San Marino

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.^[2]

Asia

Examples of the torture museums in Asia include:

• Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Unit 731 Museum in Harbin, China

North America

The largest torture museums in the United States:

• The Medieval Torture Museum in the cities of St. Augustine, Florida and Chicago, Illinois
• Medieval Torture Museum in Hollywood, California
• Museum Of Man's Instruments Of in Torture San Diego, California
• Museum Of Historic Torture Devices in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

Central America

• Museo de la Tortura in Mexico City, Mexico
• Museo de la Tortura Veracruz, Mexico

See also

• Medieval instruments of torture
• Torture chamber

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Taylor . Tanya . 2023-03-29 . Journey Through Time: The Medieval Torture Museum in Chicago . 2024-02-17 . travelsandtreasures.com . en.
2. Web site: Museum of Medieval Torture Instruments Amsterdam. Torture Museum Amsterdam. 9 February 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714133744/http://www.torturemuseumamsterdam.com/. 14 July 2014.