Your Experience
Explore the Medieval Torture Museum at your own pace with an audio guide in English and Spanish, plus an interactive ghost hunting app.
Getting started
Enter the Medieval Torture Museum using your ticket and make your way inside the 6,000-square-foot exhibition space. Pick up or activate your audio guide in English or Spanish so you can follow the route in the language you prefer. Once you are set, start your self-guided visit and move through the museum in the order and pace that works for you.
What to expect
Medieval Torture Museum
This large-scale interactive museum focuses on the dark history of punishment, torture, and executions. Your visit takes you past detailed scenes that combine historical devices with lifelike figures to show how these methods were used.
Features
• Explore a 6,000-square-foot exhibition filled with hundreds of torture, interrogation, restraint, and execution devices, arranged so you can see how different tools were applied across various periods and situations.
• Encounter wax sculptures depicting executioners and victims in realistic scenes, which helps you understand how each device functioned in practice and the human impact behind the objects on display.
• Use your audio guide in English or Spanish to hear explanations for the large-scale interactive museum exhibits, from individual torture devices to broader themes around punishment and executions.
• Add an extra layer to your visit with the ghost hunting app, which provides a dedicated Ghost Hunting Experience as you move through the galleries and engage with the atmosphere of the Medieval Torture Museum.
• Your voucher will be emailed to you shortly.
• Display the voucher on your mobile phone with a valid photo ID at the starting point.
• Please check your final voucher for the starting point details & specific instructions.
Free cancellation up to 1 day before start
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