The most terrifying LESSONS OF HISTORY

The most terrifying LESSONS OF HISTORY

Entertainment with a Purpose.
History you can feel — Learn why it must never return.

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The most terrifying LESSONS OF HISTORY

The most terrifying LESSONS OF HISTORY

Entertainment with a Purpose.
History you can feel — Learn why it must never return.

Ticket Icon 1 ticket - 3 experiences:

Museum + Audioguide + Ghost-Hunting

Medieval Torture Museum Slide 3

The most terrifying LESSONS OF HISTORY

The most terrifying LESSONS OF HISTORY

Entertainment with a Purpose.
History you can feel — Learn why it must never return.

Ticket Icon 1 ticket - 3 experiences:

Museum + Audioguide + Ghost-Hunting

Medieval Torture Museum Slide 4

The most terrifying LESSONS OF HISTORY

The most terrifying LESSONS OF HISTORY

Entertainment with a Purpose.
History you can feel — Learn why it must never return.

Ticket Icon 1 ticket - 3 experiences:

Museum + Audioguide + Ghost-Hunting

Welcome to the Medieval Torture Museum in Branson

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Interactive
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Don’t just watch, participate.

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Ghost
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Solve a paranormal mystery

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Audio
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Immersive stories in 2 language

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With a 4.9 rating — visitors love the fear

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ABOUT US

Our Main Product is Emotion — and our mission is to turn that emotion into understanding.

We are the largest interactive historical museum of our kind in the United States, with over 7,000 square feet of exhibits and more than 300 documented devices from the past.

Our experience is immersive, intense, and undeniably entertaining — entertainment with a purpose. Every display and reconstruction draws visitors into the darker chapters of human history, not to sensationalize cruelty, but to reveal how and why it occurred.

We believe that confronting the past, even its most uncomfortable parts, helps prevent it from returning. Visitors leave not only impressed by the immersion, but enriched with deeper historical awareness and a clearer understanding of the moral lessons history offers.

This is meaningful entertainment.

This is the past, shown so we can build a better future.

Are you brave enough to feel, learn, and remember?

Test your courage

Are you brave enough to endure a visit to this unique exhibit?

Purchase your ticket today!

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WHY CHOOSE US?

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The first exclusive medieval torture museum in the USA

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Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it

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Hundreds of exhibits, dozens of executions, and you with only one life

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The dark side of progress on display

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Which are you? The tormentor or the tormented? Stand on both sides and find out

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We've collected the terrible evidence of the cruelest inhumanity

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Ghost Hunting Experience

Ghost Hunting
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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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    (Not recommended under 18) – without an adult
    Children under the age of 10 are admitted free of charge as long as they are accompanied by a dedicated adult (1 adult to 1 child).

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    Medieval Torture Museum is a modern interactive museum in which interaction with exhibits continues the main exposition. Visitors can play the role of executioners and their victims. They are able to sit in the spiked chair of inquiries, pose in a “barrel for drunkards”…

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    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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    ABOUT US

    Our Main Product is Emotion — and our mission is to turn that emotion into understanding.

    We are the largest interactive historical museum of our kind in the United States, with over 7,000 square feet of exhibits and more than 300 documented devices from the past.

    Our experience is immersive, intense, and undeniably entertaining — entertainment with a purpose. Every display and reconstruction draws visitors into the darker chapters of human history, not to sensationalize cruelty, but to reveal how and why it occurred.

    We believe that confronting the past, even its most uncomfortable parts, helps prevent it from returning. Visitors leave not only impressed by the immersion, but enriched with deeper historical awareness and a clearer understanding of the moral lessons history offers.

    This is meaningful entertainment.

    This is the past, shown so we can build a better future.

    Are you brave enough to feel, learn, and remember?

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