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“A must visit in Krakow”

Mar 2024

Owner was extremely knowledgeable and took his time to explain how the various torture devices worked.

“Fascinating place! Must see!”

Dec 2021

Amazing collection of weird and wonderful torture equipment as well as just some beautiful artefacts.

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Carl S
Burgess Hill, United Kingdom23 contributions
An interesting way to spend an hour
An interesting little museum with a quirky owner. He had a great personality and was great to talk to. There's a lot of intresting exhibits, its definitely worth a visit if you have an hour to spare. My only small gripe was there as no formal 'tour' as such, more a case of questions and answers. No issue, but was a lot of 'what was this for' kind of thing. Its a well presented museum and worth the small fee to have a look
Visited February 2024
Traveled as a couple
Written February 10, 2024
Coach I
1 contribution
Perfect host great exhibit.
Mariusz was a fantastic host. He was extremely knowledgable about all of the exhibit pieces. His English was very very good and the information was very interesting. The wife says it was the best bit about our trip! Cants recommended this museum enough. Fantastic.
Visited February 2024
Traveled as a couple
Written February 17, 2024
i_am_plankton
92 contributions
Fantastic small museum
Excellent small museum that is a private collection of the owner. Owner is more than happy to talk through the different exhibits and with humour, too! Fun way to spend a bit of time and support a small local business.
Visited February 2024
Traveled as a couple
Written March 3, 2024
Ashleigh H
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A must visit in Krakow
Stumbled upon this place by accident and so glad we did. Owner was extremely knowledgeable and took his time to explain how the various torture devices worked. Expansive collection and a great and fitting atmosphere.
Visited March 2024
Traveled as a couple
Written March 24, 2024
Srpilgrim
Tavistock, United Kingdom18 contributions
Excellent small museum
A great little museum with lots of interesting devices and equipment to look at. The owner was very knowledgeable and engaging, taking the time to explain many of them to us. Well worth the small entry fee.
Visited April 2024
Traveled as a couple
Written April 4, 2024
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Great Museum
We had an hour of spare time on our holiday and came across this museum. It was good value for money and our guide (Kamil) was very knowledgeable and very nice to talk to. Some good interactive exhibits as well
Visited June 2024
Traveled with friends
Written June 14, 2024

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Vanessa A

Glasgow, UK4 contributions

Small "museum", unprepared guide

Feb 2020 • Friends

We spotted this "museum" on the way back to our hotel and we thought it was going to be an interesting, different one.
We went in, and discovered a single room crammed with poorly organised and sloppily displayed "artifacts".
After wandering around for less than a minute, the cashier that sold us the tickets trundled downstairs and proceeded to stare at us awkwardly. He finally gave some very random and very inaccurate information about the items on display, which looked like he was making up on the spot. When asked to provide historical context to his various claims, he failed miserably to do so; he must have been having some serious delusions of grandeur, thinking himself some sort of guide or expert!
If you are looking for an interesting and intriguing experience, prepare to be disappointed or to do have Wikipedia handy the whole time, you will not find any credible source of information in this museum.

Written February 28, 2020

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jnash84

Bournemouth, UK486 contributions

A bit different and worth a visit

Jan 2022 • Couples

This place is a privately owned exhibition and the owner was on-site when we visited. Asking how much we were told 30 PLN for the two of us and didn’t hear any other options; so that would be approx £6 (£3 a person) so not expensive.

It is a single room packaged with different artefacts / items of torture and the owner was happy to answer any questions or give some general information on things. Spoke some English for us to get the idea. There is no written down information or pictures from historical books which would have been good, not that there was much room to include this. More a room of interest than a museum and only takes about 15 minutes to look round.

Easy to fit around other things, not too far from the main square at all and only £3 (15 PLN) per person so worth popping in - just would not expect it to be a museum or large

Written January 29, 2022

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Mrs M

Oswaldtwistle, UK26 contributions

Quirky museum, fun time

Sep 2022 • Friends

detailed personal tour of this quirky museum. The owner was a friendly chap, enthusiastic in giving very detailed explanations, almost sure he’d have had us on the stretching rack being flailed with some torture instrument which only led to us enjoying it even more. If you’ve got 20mins to spare go and see him they need as much support as possible this is a private museum without any council funding/support.
On thé main square across from the head statue down a little court yard, hidden gem

Written September 21, 2022

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Donna Louise S

18 contributions

Excellent museum well worth a visit

Sep 2020

We went to this museum while we where in Krakow and found it very interesting The owner has a great collection and is very friendly and helpful. We where given a guided tour and was able to ask as many questions as we needed to. If you are in Krakow it is well worth taking a hour out of your day to visit as you wont be disappointed.

Written September 29, 2020

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Trevola

Wakefield, UK42 contributions

A unique and novel museum, worth a visit

Feb 2022

I have NEVER before seen such a museum! And I loved it!

It's not the biggest museum you'll ever visit but it's cheap and well stocked. The owner even came down with us and told us what certain implements were for... I think he'd have given a demonstration if he was asked! :)

It's a very novel and impressive little place, and the owner is such a lovely guy. If you get the chance to visit then it's a must - it's worth the entrance fee and if you can get talking to the owner you'll find him super friendly.

Thanks for a memorable hour or so!

Written March 10, 2022

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ajsqueen

Rochester, MN10 contributions

Educational, interesting, and even a bit creepy!

May 2022

Very inexpensive. Was very small but had some amazing artifacts that cannot be found elsewhere. The museum owner gave us a personal tour and explained each item and how it was used. Pretty amazing and even kind of creepy stuff. All of the items are authentic and were used on people- hard to believe when you see some of the devices! For those who like history or even the macabre, this is a small museum that shouldn't be missed!

Written May 28, 2022

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Jordan R

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Perfect holiday gap-filler

Oct 2022 • Couples

My partner and I visited the executioner museum as something to do to break up the day on our visit to Krakow. We had a great time and the equipment on display was very interesting. As there was no one else there, the owner showed us round and explained what each piece of equipment was used for which was very kind of him. The museum is located just off the main square so is very easy to access. Overall it was an enjoyable experience and I would recommend it to anyone visiting Krakow!

Written October 12, 2022

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Siobhan

6 contributions

Amazing!

Dec 2022 • Solo

Amazing museum! It's a small museum packed with torture and execution implements - some rare and large peices too you just won't see elsewhere. All original. It's quite impressive! The owner is lovely and happy to answer all questions. Probably the best museum I went to in Krakow. It's right in the main square, dont miss it!

Written December 12, 2022

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Ola

1 contribution

Creepy old member of staff

Jun 2022 • Couples

The place is quite interesting itself but the staff member (old man) seemed super creepy. He went downstairs with us and started telling us about things completely unrelated to the place. What's more he seemed chauvinistic and he shared his beliefs related to this even though we did not want to talk about it. During our visit we had no possibility to talk to each other because of the constant comments of the man. I would not recommend visiting this place. We paid a lot and did not get a chance to enjoy the visit.

Written June 16, 2022

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Morgan L

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MUST SEE

Sep 2023 • Couples

We went in randomly just to check it out and the owner himself give us a tour of everything! Answered all of our questions and gave us examples and was very interesting and accommodating. Would recommend this as it doesn’t take very long and the owner is happy to help.

Written September 25, 2023

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