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The latest stories, interviews and updates of our museum.
08 Dec 2025
The best day excursion you can do without leaving the county is to visit the Medieval Torture Museum. The Getty Center: one of the best places for amazing views. Griffith Observatory: the famous location for sunsets in LA. “Snow & Desert Escapes” Big Bear Lake is for when you actually miss winter. Joshua Tree National […]
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05 Dec 2025
The Painful Language of Protest Tarring and feathering is one of the best known examples of how people shamed others publicly in the early modern period. Tarring and feathering is a unique combination of punishment, a symbol of the community's anger towards someone who did not conform to what they believed should have happened and […]
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05 Dec 2025
Throughout history, societies have used mutilation as punishment to keep order, scare people, and mark criminals so everyone knows what they did. Way before prisons were a thing, leaders would mess people up physically to punish them and warn others. They'd carve the sentence right into the person's body, turning them into a walking reminder […]
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05 Dec 2025
The Weight of Judgment Few punishments in medieval legal history evoke such dread as peine forte et dure — a method in which silence itself became a crime, and pressure became the instrument of justice. This brutal practice was used when an accused refused to plead during trial. Without a confession or denial, the court […]
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