Museo della Tortura or Museum of Torture is an interesting place, and visitors need to have a plenty of time on hand to visit this place. One simply cannot miss it as it is one of the unique museums that will surprise you after checking the articles that are kept inside. Kept inside the museum are the tools of torture that were used in the ancient times as capital punishment. This museum has a great display of various kinds of weapons, machinery, devices and tools that were used for torture of different kinds.
It is based in Palazzo Guinigi Magrini which is a historical place in Lucca. Here you can find illustrations and explanations of the instruments in sheets by researchers. The equipment are from the 16th and the 17th century. The museum has over a thousand such pieces and displays in detail of how the rulers used to punish the criminals and others in those times. The museum shows how the people then had known the machinery that worked in such a fashion that was atrocious and cruel.

About the museum
The museum is totally different than what you would expect from normal museums. The machines that is sophisticated and very rare to be used in those times. This one museum is not to be missed if you are in Lucca. Of course, the purpose to create such an exhibition is to condemn this kind of torture that took place in the medieval times. This strange museum has come up on Via Fillungo and is a part of the chain of museums that you can see here. There are various museums like this in Europe, but this one is displayed nicely and is done well, nothing sensationalistic, but just the facts and how they were. You will be educated seeing the instruments that were actually used to torture people to extract the truth.
The visit will definitely leave you thinking for a long time about the torture that was carried out in those times. The real iron maiden at the museum is terrifying along with the paintings that also show how the people were tortured using different weapons and machines. Another one is the chastity belt that also looks very gruesome and horrifying. The Nuremberg virgins too did their job of providing pain successfully. The spiked collars are also one of the worst kind of torture equipment that might have scared the prisoners.

Schedule
Open daily from 9:00 to 19:00
Full price: € 10.00
Reduced: € 7.00 (students aged 6 to 25 years and disabled)
Groups: 5.00 € (minimum 20 people)
Free for children under 6 years: