🇮🇹 Turin's Criminology Museum Hidden Gem

🎟️ €5 (discount €3) – Combo ticket with Anatomy Museum available! 🔍 Museo di Antropologia Criminale A niche but fascinating dive into crime history, forensic science & Italy’s justice system. 📌 Highlights: Cesare Lombroso’s controversial research (19th-century "born criminal" theory). Spooky artifacts: ☠️ Skulls (yawn... the "boring" part!) 🔪 Cross-shaped dagger hidden in a crucifix 🖋️ Prisoners’ carvings (gallows on cups, Virgin Mary in bottles) 🧶 A 43kg rope dress woven by an inmate 🥚 Delicate eggshell lotus art – hidden by its paranoid creator until death 💀 Lombroso’s theory: Claimed criminals had "ape-like skull indentations", making them "uncivilizable". Modern critiques: If crime is innate, is punishment futile? Exhibit includes his late-era obsession with seances & racist/sexist notes. ✨ My Experience Empty museum = sit anywhere! Projections + glass displays create eerie, immersive lighting. Patient-drawn symmetrical patterns on ceilings add to the surreal vibe. #DarkTourism #OffbeatMuseums #CrimeAndArt #LonelyGallery #TurinSecrets