Best. Museum. Ever.
Paul McCarthy wishes he could one day be as freaky as whoever created the installations for the Museo de la Inquisición in Lima, where various displays detail the ways in which humans can inflict pain on each other. It’s a tiny exhibit. (Peruvians weren’t diehard inquisitors, disposing of only 271 “heretics” during the 16th and 17th centuries — compared with the more than 100,000 in Germany during roughly the same period.) But it’s highly entertaining. Particularly if you’re an eight-year-old boy.
The museum is located on the Jirón Junín 548, on the Plaza Bolivar. Admission is free.
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An early Dick Cheney practices waterboarding, 16th century style. Interestingly, one of the wall texts explained that the whole point of many inquisition tortures was to “cause pain without creating wounds or considerable bodily harm.” Sound familiar?
The latest in auto da fé wear.
Time for morning stretches.
The baroque wood ceiling in what once served as the building’s library. The structure that housed the tribunal would ultimately be covered by another structure, which would serve as home to the Peruvian Senate starting in the 1820s.
nice find…I could use a stretch about now
At least they allow prisoners to be fashionable! Are fashionistas one of those left wing groups that are always persecuted?