Museum of Torture — Attraction in Lucca

The Museum of Torture is a wonderfully macabre way to spend an hour. Mans inhumanity to man springs to mind when you read about all these instruments designed to inflict terrible pain and/or death to the innocent and guilty alike. My wife and I were greeted at the entrance, first passing a guillotine, by a lovely, friendly and informative young lady - Maria is her name. She took our nominal entrance fee and told us to look around and take our time. Some of the instruments of torture are downright nasty. How did our ancestors think up all these ways of inflicting pain and/or death. If you are looking for the rendering of limbs and hearing the screams of the tormented, this is not for you. However, if you want to see an insight into our gory past, it is well worth a visit. You won't be disappointed. PS. The Saw was a real nasty way of suffering before being...

Hugely expensive (10 euro) for its size (very small). Signs often correspond with the stuff next to it, but not always (could not find signs for half of the stuff displayed and couldn't find some stuff that was talked about on the signs ie "the face carved on the stone that someone had to carry with them for their entire life". App worked badly, even after restarting a couple of times. Otherwise nice collection. Would have been great for max 3 euro. No...

My first time visiting this kind of museum. I was attracted by the chair on the poster outside, only during the visit I discovered that it was in another location of the same museum. The pieces displayed have a description but any etiquette indicating the provenance. Are they a copy?! The person in charge of selling ticket did not wear a covid mask despite it was still mandatory in museums. The visit doesn’t...