Spending time in a museum usually does not bring any negative emotions for us, but in rare cases it also happens vice versa. There are such museums on the planet, a visit to which is not recommended for the faint of heart - such terrible exhibits are presented in them.
FACES OF DEATH MUMUSE MUMMY
The Mummy Museum in the Mexican town of Guanajuato is not for the faint of heart. Unlike classical Egyptian mummies, the exhibits of this museum amaze with a variety of faces of death, distorted facial expressions of some mummies even suggest that people were buried alive.
Nobody embalmed these mummies, they formed naturally in the local cemetery due to too dry soil. The dead bodies underwent rapid and severe dehydration, which kept them from decay.
This museum was formed by chance. In the second half of the 19th century, a law was passed, according to which the relatives of the deceased in the cemetery had to pay a tax on eternal burial. If the tax was not paid, the remains of the deceased were removed.
The law and forced exhumation were in force from 1865 to 1958. It is worth noting that not all of the recovered bodies were mummified, apparently, the conditions in different parts of the cemetery (dry soil, its composition, proximity to groundwater, etc.) contributed to the preservation of the bodies in different ways.
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All mummified bodies found during the exhumation were kept by the cemetery workers in a separate building. Already at the end of the 19th century, these mummies began to attract the attention of travelers, they began to charge a fee for their inspection. The official date of the foundation of the museum is 1969, when the mummies were exhibited in special glass cases.
In total, the museum has collected more than a hundred mummies, mostly women mummies, there are also about two dozen children and several men. Among the children's mummies, individual specimens stand out, which are considered the smallest mummies on the planet.
There are also quite a few creepy mummies in the museum, at the sight of which impressionable young ladies almost lose their senses. Of all the mummies, only 59 are on display. Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit the museum every year.
THE SOULS OF THE DEAD ARE ALWAYS NEARBY?
In the sacristy of the Italian church Del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio in Rome, there is a small museum, whose exhibits testify to the presence of the souls of dead people on earth. The foundation of this Museum of Dead Souls was laid in 1912 thanks to the church rector.
For a long time, only one exhibit was kept in the museum - a nightcap with traces of the ghost's fingers, smeared with soot. These traces, according to local legend, were left by the ghost of Louise le Senechel. After the death of his wife, her husband began to lead a rather riotous lifestyle and completely forgot about the prescribed mourning, so she came to him from the other world to remind him of decency.
On the night of May 7, 1873, the ghost of Louise pulled off the cap from Monsieur le Senechel's head and several times very painfully pinched his nose …
Over time, others were added to this exhibit. At the moment, the museum already has over a hundred different artifacts, including clothes, linen, books and other items with fingerprints, soles and other traces left by the souls of the dead. All of these are material evidence of the real existence of ghosts.
If you want to visit this museum, remember that it is usually closed. To view the exposition, you need to contact the local priest. By the way, according to the testimony of tourists who have visited the museum, it is useless to photograph in it - the perfume spoils almost all pictures …
NATURAL HORROR "TOWER OF THE CRAZY"
The Museum of Pathological Anatomy in Vienna (Austria) is located in a 5-storey tower-building, which in the XVIII century was a clinic for violent madmen, hence the second name of the museum - "Tower of the Madmen".
Although mentally ill people have long disappeared from this building, many visitors to the museum, having not yet seen its exhibits, already feel a kind of oppressive "aura" of its thick walls, as if saturated with negativity and unhealthy emotions.
The exhibits of the eerie museum will not add to the mood. Faint-hearted people are immediately advised to refrain from visiting it.
What is so terrible you can see in the "Tower of the Mad"? The exposition includes preserved heads, corpses with various developmental anomalies and mutations, alcoholized babies with terrible pathologies.
The organs of patients with sexually transmitted diseases, alcoholics and smokers are demonstrated here. They say it is very useful to see them for people suffering from bad habits and those who are promiscuous in their connections.
One of the most valuable exhibits of the museum is the head of the assassin of Empress Sisi in alcohol. Perhaps the only exhibit that does not evoke negative emotions is an ancient mahogany gynecological chair.
MUTTER'S MUSEUM OF MEDICAL HISTORY
The Mutter Museum of Medical History in Philadelphia (USA) presents an extensive collection of medical pathologies and antique medical equipment. There are no less terrible exhibits here than in the Museum of Pathological Anatomy in Vienna, so especially impressionable people should better refrain from examining it.
The Mutter Museum was opened in early 1750 by Benjamin Franklin, at first its unusual collection was used only for scientific research and educational purposes. Now this museum can be visited by anyone.
Among its exhibits, the famous collection of human skulls (48 pieces) of various sizes and shapes is widely known. One of the most important exhibits in the museum is a woman's body, which has turned into soap due to the unusual conditions of her burial site.
Here you can also see the famous Siamese twins Chan and Yen Bunkers with a united liver, skeletons of Siamese twins, fused heads, the skeleton of a two-headed child, many conserved internal organs with various pathologies.
One of the main exhibits of the museum, Harry Eastlack, is of great interest to tourists. During his lifetime, this person suffered from ossifying fibrodysplasia, a very rare disease characterized by the formation of bone growths at the site of a bruise or wound. Istlak died at the age of more than forty years, before that he bequeathed his skeleton to the museum.
In addition to the skeleton of this unfortunate man, the museum presents a number of his lifetime photographs. Another exhibit, pretty shocking to visitors, is a fused female fetus in a glass cube jar.
TORTURED WITH DEVIL'S FANTASY
There are several torture museums in the world, but two of them are considered especially scary - in The Hague (Netherlands) and in the city of Mdina (Malta). The first of them is also called the "Gates of Prisoners", the main exhibit in it is an ancient casemate of the 13th century, in which the torture actually took place.
Its walls seem to be saturated with unbearable pain and horror; especially sensitive people here often faint during an excursion. The museum displays an impressive arsenal of various instruments of torture, and the guide's story is replete with detailed details of their use.
The Mdina Torture Museum is considered unsurpassed in its impact on visitors. It is located in the basement, going down into which you immediately come across beheaded people, gallows, a rack and various instruments of torture. Among the latter - a vice for squeezing the skull, forceps for plucking nails and other inventions of executors who had a truly devilish imagination.
It shows scenes of various torture, the characters of which, made of wax, look very naturalistic. These museums are not recommended for the faint of heart, pregnant women and children.