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North Holland · Culture & daily life

Torture Museum asks for distance from the spectacle

More than forty instruments of punishment and torture, engravings and multilingual texts deal with European practices from the Middle Ages and the early modern period.

Plan your visit ↗

Instrument with a provenance

A name such as inquisition chair or guillotine instantly conjures up an image. Read the dating, region and authenticity status before you assume that the piece on display was actually used in history.

Image source and reality

Engravings may be propaganda, a warning or a later depiction. Compare an image with the object label and ask what evidence supports the link between the two.

Late opening, heavy content

The small museum stays open until 23.00, but explicit themes call for calm viewing. Younger visitors and sensitive groups should judge for themselves in advance whether it is suitable.

Before you go

Daily 10.00–23.00; check current prices on the official page, as secondary guides quote lower amounts.

Sources

This first edition has been compiled from collected museum information. Not all of the information has yet been confirmed by the museum. Viewing tips are by the editorial team. The sources used are listed below.

  1. Research card 0952 — Torture Museum

    Source reference supplied; independent source check still needed. Unverified reference from a supplied research card; content, authority and currency still to be checked independently.

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