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We are the largest interactive historical museum in the U.S., occupying more than 6,000 square feet, with over 100 unique implements and devices on display. Enter the minds of fanatics, madmen, and murderers, and discover the world’s most detailed collection of confinement and torture devices. We believe that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, and have amassed an unprecedented collection of cruelty, based on historical documents and engravings, offering a chilling look into the darkest parts of human history.
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WHY CHOOSE US?
The first exclusive medieval torture museum in the USA
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it
Hundreds of exhibits, dozens of executions, and you with only one life
The dark side of progress on display
Which are you? The tormentor or the tormented? Stand on both sides and find out
We've collected the terrible evidence of the cruelest inhumanity
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Extras
Ghost Hunting
Experience
Your ticket purchase also includes our "Ghost-Hunting Experience"—perfect for birthdays, corporate events, or just a fun get-together with friends and family! Download the ghost-hunting app to find and catch ghosts all over the Museum, and learn the chilling stories of how they died. (Keep an eye out for the most terrifying apparition of them all: the ghost of Thomas the Executioner!)
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Audio Guide
Our audio guide (available in English and Spanish), recorded and performed by a professional actor, includes fifty-six stories about the torture implements and devices on display throughout the Musuem. You’ll learn the gory details of their history and function, as well as hearing personal accounts of actual people—both criminal and innocent—who were subjected to them.
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Chicago
timeout.com
A museum dedicated to medieval torture methods opens in the Loop
Looking for a light afternoon diversion? Consider paying a visit to the Medieval Torture Museum, an interactive, eight-room tour of history’s most gruesome torture methods that debuted last month on a bustling strip of State Street.
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coolthingschicago.com
Experience Medieval Torture in the New Dedicated Interactive Museum in the Loop
The Medieval Torture Museum gives people the opportunity to see some of these torture devices up-close, in a more direct way, although you don’t have to worry, it might be an interactive experience, but no one will be hurt…
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onlyinyourstate.com
The Museum Of Medieval Torture In Illinois Is Not For The Faint Of Heart
Ugh, getting caught in traffic is just torture! Or is it? By Medieval standards, a time-consuming commute is a walk in the park.The Medieval Torture Museum in Chicago, Illinois is a great example of what a really, really bad day could look like…
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loopchicago.com
MEDIEVAL TORTURE MUSEUM
The ”Medieval Torture Collection” reminds us just how much suffering humanity can inflict in the name of cause and justice when the right tools are placed in the hands of fanatics, madmen and tyrants.
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roadsideamerica.com
Medieval Torture Museum
The museum with hundreds of horrific devices, reconstructed for him by movie prop-builders using pieces of real medieval torture equipment that he purchased from a variety of “very, very weird people.” To increase the shock value of the racks, saws, and bone crushers, Eugene wanted to display them with torture victim wax dummies, but found that such things didn’t exist.
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news4jax.com
Exploring St Augustine Medieval Torture Museum | River City Live
What I personally found interesting is that there were different “punishments” designed to suit certain crimes. Public drunkenness could land you in a barrel of water, for weeks, in the center of town. Gossip or slander? Well, that’s not for the weak of heart.
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narcity.com
Things To Do This Torture Device Museum In Florida Will Make You Feel Like You’re In One Of ‘Jigsaw’s’ Games
The Medieval Torture Museum features one of the most miserable moments of human history through sculptures and paintings that will give you the chills.
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orlandosentinel.com
Meet the history of pain in St. Augustine
Over the course of 4,000 square feet, patrons will see hundreds of displays recreated from historic documents as to the practices and systems for death and dismemberment in the age of superstition and plague.
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dailynews.com
The interactive Medieval Torture Museum is now open on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles
Some may be disturbed, others may be grossed out and a few might find it fascinating, but most visitors to this new museum in Los Angles will have a hard time forgetting all of the unbelievably cruel — and some downright evil — devices they’ll encounter as they walk through these rather macabre scenes…
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richmond.com
Medieval Torture Museum explores painful history
The approximately 6,000-square-foot multilevel museum is squeezed in between the Museum of Illusions and the famed Hollywood Wax Museum. It houses hundreds of Medieval-era torture contraptions and tools of the trade, such as spiked metal clubs, spiked neck and ankle bracelets, curved swords used for disemboweling people, and whips made out of sharp chains.
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hollywoodreporter.com
Torture Museum Makes Hollywood Debut
The same tourist-trap Hollywood Blvd. block that’s home to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Odditorium and a permanent Guinness World Records exhibition now boasts a new novelty attraction dedicated to pain and suffering…
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