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.
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 interactive torture museum in the United States: The Medieval Torture Museum in the cities of Saint Augustine (FL) and Chicago (IL).
See also
Medieval instruments of torture
Torture chamber
References
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