Torture Museum — Attraction in Amsterdam

The Torture Museum in Amsterdam is a small museum that exhibits a collection of historical instruments of torture.

The museum is priced at €9.50 for adults, €5.00 for children under 12, and €7.50 for groups of 12 or more.

The museum is very small, and it can be easily seen in under 30 minutes. The exhibits are well-curated. However, I felt that the museum was not really value for money.

The main reason for this is that the exhibits are quite static. There is no interactive element to the museum, and you are simply left to look at the instruments of torture. This can be quite jarring, and it is not something that I would recommend to everyone. Just the simple addition of background noises of torture would improve the overall experience.

If you are interested in the history of torture, then you may find the Torture Museum in Amsterdam to be an interesting place to visit. However, I would not recommend it to people who are sensitive to graphic images or who are looking for a more interactive museum experience.

Here are some of the pros and cons of the Torture Museum in Amsterdam:

Pros:

Well-curated exhibits

Small and easy to see in under 30 minutes

Cons:

Static exhibits

Can be quite jarring

Not value for money

Overall, I would give the Torture Museum in Amsterdam a rating of 3 out of 5 stars. It is an interesting place to visit if you are interested in the history of torture, but it is not worth the full price...

I visited the torture museum late last week during a group holiday to Amsterdam. This was one of the places we were most excited to visit as we do have a bit of a morbid curiosity in the darker aspects of history and such. I'm sorry to say that it is difficult to express how truly disappointed I was at the museum. Entry for me and a friend was not too bad €7ish as we could get the student price. We expected a decent sized museum that delved into the history of torture. Yet we managed to compete the whole thing in around 7 minutes and that was with us stopping to properly look at each piece and read the few bits of text scattered around the place. The great thing about specialised museums is that they allow the curators to really delve into the topic but here it feels like they just wanted to smash together a few things and call it a day. I'd maybe be more forgiving if the prices were lower €4-5 maybe but that would be at a push. I would suggest giving this place a miss if you are visiting, unless you have a few Euro left that you would like to get rid of.

I would also like to add that the staff member we spoke to at the start did seem very friendly and polite which is always a positive regardless of how the...

The Torture Museum in Amsterdam was somewhere I was genuinely excited about visiting, I had booked this through GetYourGuide and I was counting down the days when I got to go. The tickets came digitally through my phone app and I came into the building and it was quite dark. I got my ticket scanned and then was sent on my way, it felt abandoned, and disused if I'm being honest.

Now, I've visited many museums in the past and the point of a museum is to inform and educate you, and they make a bit of an effort with the designs to ensure the customers, especially paying customers can have an experience, but most of the designs were pieces of paper stapled to the wall. Some pieces of equipment were real but I felt they could have put more time and thought as to how to draw the most impact rather than it being scattered along the pathway.

I read some of the reviews one of them being "low-budget museum" and that's exactly the best way to describe this place, if you want more horror and more spookiness I would recommend visiting Amsterdam during the weekend...