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Torture Museum
Type: History Museums, Museums
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Horrible devices designed to elicit confessions from long-ago prisoners comprise the displays in this small, dark museum. The physical pain created by straps, spikes, weights and blades seems... Read More
Horrible devices designed to elicit confessions from long-ago prisoners comprise the displays in this small, dark museum. The physical pain created by straps, spikes, weights and blades seems unimaginable to modern folks, and the frequency with which these means of punishment and death were employed is enough to give visitors uneasy pause. Formerly government- and church-sanctioned, the instruments of torture also draw forth sighs of relief from museum-goers, who are simply thankful that times have changed.
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Hours:
- Daily 10am-11pm
Admissions:
- Adult 7.50; Child 3.50