Torture museum

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.

Torture museums

Europe

Examples of the torture museums in Europe include:

• Museo de la Tortura in Toledo, Spain
• 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;
• Galeria de la Inquisicion in Cordoba, Spain
• 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), Chicago (IL)
• Medieval Torture Museum in Hollywood, CA
• Museum Of Man's Instruments Of in Torture San Diego, CA
• Museum Of Historic Torture Devices in Wisconsin Dells, WI

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