Informatica museologica, No. 45-46, 2015.
Stručni rad
THE TORTUREUM, THE NEWLY OPENED MUSEUM OF TORTURE IN ZAGREB
Renata Santo
; Tortureum - muzej torture, Zagreb
Sažetak
The museum is located in the immediate vicinity of Jelačić
Square, on the first floor of the building at Radićeva 14, down
which in the past the Medveščak Brook flowed. This brook
was the natural border between Gradec and Kaptol, between
which communities there were often bloody clashes, which
the name of the street Bloody Bridge still recalls. Hence the
actual location of the Museum takes us back to the time of
the medieval Zagreb settlements in which some of the methods
of torture then carried out in Western Europe as well
were employed.
The basic concept of the Tortoreum was devised by Želimir
Laszlo; architect Ana Dana Beroš provided the architectural
concept, preliminary approach and blueprint; the design
is by Luka Juras. The museum set up is spread over three
rooms, with the proviso that as soon as they arrive on the
first floor of the building the visitors are immersed in the
theme. The corridor preceding the entrance to the Museum
is decorated with murals by Miron Milić, which show scenes
of the torture of heretics and witches and the legend of the
perfidious crowning of Matija Gubec on St Mark’s Square,
which is just an introduction to the stories of various kinds
of torture presented behind the closed doors. Some seventy
faithful replicas of devices for torture from the area of Europe
are on show, used from antiquity until the 21st century, which
makes the museum unique. The objective of the Museum
is to acquaint visitors with the problem area of torture and
develop awareness of its existence in society today, achieved
by stories about the exhibits on the multimedia guide. It does
not belong to the past and the gloomy Middle Ages, as shown
by the disturbing video with shots of torture from the current
age, which visitors can see in a curtained-off space
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
176839
URI
Datum izdavanja:
2.9.2016.
Posjeta: 1.143 *