St.Ambrose's Pusterla Museum

Museum of criminology and ancient weapons in Milan

The right place for lovers of tortures
The museum is situated near the St.Ambrose's Pusterla, ancient entry of the city and it exposes a collection of ancient weapons (arquebuses, guns, swords, halberds, shields, crossbows, armors) and torture tools, from the Middle Ages to '800.

The torture tools collection harvest includes medieval finds and reconstructions of the XVIII-XIX sec, among these: the guillotine, the garrota, the wheel.
Lugubrious atmosphere, soundtrack of shrieks and Dario Argento's style music, brief and detailed descriptions and on what malefactors were used the tools, epoch presses that represented other forms of torture that didn't foresee the use of tools but surely efficacious on the unlucky person's body (useless to enter the particular ones), will accompany you during the visit.
You can admire, to say, an old electric chair, a pole used by ancient Turks to impale, with press of the epoch and descriptions of variations used to make more or less painful the agony, ingenious tools as " thumbs crushes" and the "pipe", used against who was guilty to play a false note in public shows of orchestras, the famous dildos, some elegantly adorned, used on homosexuals and women too much gossipers.
Not to lose the "iron virgin", sarcophagus containing spikes used for punishing counterfeiters, the "torture bed ", a bed with in the middle a pointed and leather lassos that stretched hands and feet of the unfortunate person, the guillotine, the garrota and various types of whips as the deadly one "cat with nine tails" that it divides in various subtypes in according of terminations (with leaden little balls, with hooks to tear the flesh and so on), to reach at tools not so much known as
the "pendulum and "head crush" used in the Republic of St. Mark at the Doges' time.
In the museum, even if small, you have a lot of things to see it and despite his lugubrious atmosphere, a visit is recommended above all for knowing a part of the civilization history that often is not treated to fund. The differences of the peoples you will see too in as tormented the people: from the rawwest methods of people a little developed to more elaborate tortures as those used by the Spanish inquisition rather than from Venetians.

How to reach Museum of criminology and ancient weapons:
MM2 (subway green line) S.Ambrogio station
bus ATM: 50 - 58 - 94