Torture Museum
Exposition
of Torture Instruments
Antwerpen
"
Are you curious about pains or torture. Just imagine your
head kept on sharp knife waiting to be removed from rest
of your body or hands tied up just to get torn apart...."
From
the Confessional chair to....
[
Open daily from 10.00 AM ]
Just a five minutes walk from the Central Station
Just
the thought of it might flow shivers through your body.
Torture has been experienced by every body of us once
in our life time in one form or another. Torture has been
the mode of punishment since the birth of human race.
For many of us curiosity to know the way of torture is
like knowing just other exciting subject for those of
us a museum having the name "Torture Museum", is in Belgium,
Europe.
Every
European town had its pillory in the market square. The
infamous marks of punishment were part and parcel of every
day live.Dozens
of torture instruments from all parts of Europe
Witchcraft
and witch hunt
Numerous
illustrative engravings
Historical
explanations in four languages
The
Machine
The
blade back to the years of the French Revolution. Since
then, it has constituted a permanent symbol of mechanized
state terror.
Witch
Balance
This
iron chair served as incontrovertible evidence against
witches. The suspect was tied up to the chair and counterbalanced
to two books of the Bible. If she was heavier than the
Holy Writ (Which was often the case), she was considered
to be a witch.
