Museum of the Inquisition — Attraction in Carcassonne

This museum should be required for all adults and students to visit because it shows the depravity of the human soul when aided and abetted by dogma, religious sanction and political propaganda. The cruel inventiveness of the forms of torture leading to immense acute and longer pain and suffering and slow death is absolutely appalling with torture in head and limb crushing, cutting humans in half on Sharp objects slowly with foot weights, burning bodies with heated iron prongs in chair where people are tied down, and in crushing people to death in boxes of sharp needles appallingly called the Iron Maiden. Or burning them faster at the stake. And for what their religion? Not really it to feed the political and religious power and exacerbate the sadistic interests of the depraved. Water boarding takes origin from this sort of torture, and the inquisition would have embraced the term. To see this museum is to open a window on the atrocities of Hitler and Stalin . But it is also to shed light on similar practices in the past. The Egyptian Pharaohs of the old kingdom, middle and new kingdoms, practiced slaughter . And the writers of the book of genesis endorsed it. The story of noah and his ark being the only survivors Gods punishment on the world. This makes mercy a most needed antidote . And the merchant of Venice is surely correct, ‘The quality if mercy is not strained. It drops as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.” This place was surely absent in the inquisition which was not abolished until 1907...now called the organization for the defense of the faith.... Yes everyone needs to experience this museum and remember its lessons for the next generation or it...

This was something else, that's for sure. First thing to know, the museum is actually two parts in two different buildings. Your ticket gets you into both, but the price is a bit steep, even if you read everything and actually do the whole walkthrough. It's not actually a ton of reading; as with most museums, it's just enough to give you a flavor and leave you hanging. They would really benefit from an audio guide that goes into more detail. Some of the scenes appeared to have no actual information at all. There was more to the museum than I expected, which was good. But the whole thing was a very depressing and solemn affair. After going through everything, I felt a bit overloaded with the utter horrific cruelty that had been inflicted by the Inquisition. And even though I've read about most of the torture devices before, it was unexpectedly unpleasant going through that section and I was very glad to be done with it. Overall, generally a good walkthrough that takes some time, doesn't pull its punches, yet should have some more detail in the descriptions. Overpriced. Recommend actually reading all the text; otherwise skip this attraction entirely as you won't get...

Tourist-trap The prices are too expensive for a 3-minute walkthrough. Although the instruments look interesting some of them are not even described properly and we kept wondering what they were used for. Furthermore the translations for international visitors are a joke- apparently someone used google-translator to translate passages. I- as a German visitor- could hardly understand what they were trying to say sometimes. They didnt even get the "exit" right. While first being given some German translations, we were later one looking for them and were totally confused when we couldn't find them. It turned out they had replaced the German flag which was marking the "German translation" with the Belgian one. Another time it was even turned around.

You should stay out of a museum that cannot provide proper translations nor even figure out what flag belongs to...