Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum (Medieval Crime Museum)

Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum or Medieval Crime Museum is located in Rothenburg ob der Tauber. This attractive medieval museum deals with more than Europe's one hundred years of crime and punishment, particularly with a focus on the medieval era.

The Highlights include artifacts which were used to inflict punishment and extract confessions, a lot of them were extremely gruesome, along with attractive details and documentation concerning to the often-flawed logic based on their use. Innumerable notorious criminal cases are portrayed in copper and woodcuts etchings, while another exhibit deals particularly with the gruesome witch-hunts which once gripped Bavaria.

Address: Burggasse 3, 91541 Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Official site: http://www.kriminalmuseum.eu/