Kuntz-Kamera of St. Petersburg
“Kuntzkamera” it’s a museum in St. Petersburg. It’s a really strange place, was founded by Russian Tsar Peter the First. He collected different weird stuff all over the Russia to this museum: freaky people and animals preserved in alcohol, torture instruments, strange paintings and much more. Here are photos from that place.
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If I remember corretly taking pictures in Kunst-Kamera is forbitten, but still…
The most horrible objects there (and most interesthing/popular too) are malformed embryous swimming in glassjars. I have heard some rumours that in the basement of of museum there is room where they are also adult people who have also been preserved in glass tanks, but I do know if this is true or only city legend. Anyhow I do not recomend visiting this museum if you have hangover…
Nice!!! Those were the days.
wow, im speechless.
Oh yes, I remember this place - I used to love going there when I was a kid. I was a pretty messed up little girl. =)
vera, you always were twisted,(?>?”HeLLs IcE QuEeN(=->>
Are you still a messed up girl?
You sound like a tiger in the sac!
you effin virgin lmao
lol the monkey-like figure in the 4th picture looks like Bush hahaha anyone else see the resemblance?
Ha ha, so true
http://earthhopenetwork.net/bush%20art/bush_monkey.jpg
LOL i agree! a retarded Bush LOL
http://victorprofessor.livejournal.com/49752.html#cutid1
hahahah yes it does look like bush
Long live the Holy Inquisition!
All this medieval torture devices sort of put a different perspective on water boarding.
Suck my cock
Fuck you Boris. Was this necessary? I thought that childish stupid behaviour was gone…
You and I know that you made that comment, not me! You must be upset because I made fun of Bush
Ahhhhhh don’t cry, it’s not your fault your president is a moron. Ok, I won’t make fun of Bush anymore 
Can we be friends now?
lol boris, what a commie name lol
Torture stuff is sick. How people can be so cruel to each other…
Because torture is amazing.
its easy, no im not to sick of a person, but i can tell you that i have had my torture moments,(mostly when someone disrespects me), nothing major ^_^. but just in case anyone else wants to know , it is much easier to pull out someones fingernails, or file their teeth down to nothing, when i think about how much i hate my father, and the shit that he put my family through, just imagine that it is him…that does the trick =^_^=
Okkkkk…
And he starts the paragraph with “no, im not to sick of a person”, yet he goes on to talk about pulling fingernails and filing teeth down to nothing as torture methods. Not sick at all…
It’s called christianity.
They have missed the most brutal of all torture devices. A Barry Manilow CD.
true, true…..power to those with a brain…
Jeez, there’s even an iron maiden… good old holy times.
hair metal, dick lov’in quier…
grow up, torture is for a mature twisted head,
not some rump ranger, that thinks that their all “big and bad”, just cause the listen to a dickhole,
that sounds just like someone dieing on a microphone.
Wake up, man. This isn’t a music topic. Google for “iron maiden”, avoid the lyrics and maybe you will learn something.
An iron maiden is a torture device, in case you were being ignorant.
Those torture devices are from Torture museum in Prague?
same kind of devices were used in multiple places, perhaps?
I concur. Most of the pictures of the torture devices where taken at the torture museum in Prague. I was just there last year.
“Hostel 3″ in Russia please.
The problem is that some torture staff is just a recreation from the XIX and not really from Middle ages, but an invent from that XIX century.
Another problem is that if you read carefully the pictures some mentions the civil council, not any religious organism, even Holy Inquisition. I don’t have mood or time to explain it longer, but some comments are completely wrong.
Regards.
The last picture seems to be a “Garrote Vil”, a spanish invention used as an execution method for centuries. See the screw? Well, there went the back of the neck of the prisioner/witch/criminal so the screw was pulled gently and slowly turn after turn into it. The point is that this apparatus was used until the seventies of the 20th century, by state law enforcement agencies.
Are you saying the Garrote Vil was used until the 1970’s? No way!
Are you saying that the Garrote Vil was in use in Spain until the 1970’s? No way…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrote_vil
That is not normal, espically those wierd ‘Things’ in the jars
give me nigt mares its freaky wats the go with that
OMG! I am so happy, that I am not from the past!
reminds me of the Mutter Museum.
This photo series is a mix of two museums: the Kunstkammer (too complicated a name to white it properly?), where the first 5 images belong to; and the Torture museum, sitting in the SSt.Peter-and-Paul Fortress (all the remaining images).
The Kunstkammer is one of the few remaining baroque universal museums, with some of the most amazing display jars originating from an earlier Dutch private collection, that Peter the Great obtained in Leiden.
The Torture museum is a new commercial enterprise, like the London Dungeon, etc.
please give correct information next time, take some time to READ before you post. These are two different museums that you have here. The torture museum is located in Peter-and-Paul Fortress and is not related in anyway to “Kunstkammer” !
It’s OK to post weird photos from remote regions of Russia and find it hard to check the authencity of them, but when it comes to Musems of St.Petersburg, it only takes some quick search in Google ( assuming you know how to do that
I went to a similar museum in south Germany. It was fascinating. Really makes you appreciate what we’ve got now, that hundreds of people aren’t wrongly subjected to these devices any more.
Shame the place I went to didn’t have deformed embryos though!
“Really makes you appreciate what we’ve got now, that hundreds of people aren’t wrongly subjected to these devices any more”
lol now they’re probably subjected to worse.
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People are still subjected to unfair treatment and even forms of torture, sure. But worse than being sawed in half? Or many of the other things seen here? I don’t think so!
god save our soul
whoever was killed with these i hope they are experiencing complete bliss in heaven.
Suck my fucking cock, I am not joking.
Not my comment.
I’ve been there when I was a little kid before I left the country. The museum was something of Peter I’s private medical collection (the guy was apparently interested in a bunch of things, and medicine was one of them). By the time you reach the 3rd floor the formaldehyde smell kinda gets to you (that and the sight of all the deformed babies). The place is cool regardless. Too bad no one took a picture of the big heart that Peter requested to be collected off some really tall European guy after the guy’s death.
The truly scary part is how many times history has repeated itself in the past. The question is, are we doomed to see these devices in use again in the future? In Iraq, US soldiers are finding these types of torture devices that were still used by the Iraqi regime in these “modern” “enlightened” days.
I saw the instruments of torture at the Peter and Paul fortress this spring but I did not see the rest of the freak show. It was rather disgusting, and normally I’m not very sensitive about that kinda stuff…
no good!
yea i remember some of this stuff its pretty crazy to think that these were actually used
dayum. we were doing this shit not even 200 years ago. and we call muslims etc. violent.
Yea, the good old days! Those were the days!
Life was so much better back then?
“They just don’t make them like they used to”?
Al-Queada could learn alot from these people!
Just shoot them already! Have some mercy for Christ’s sake!
i like the illustrations on what they were used for. some of that just looks like its a complex torture device
Great,I do remember this place in Leningrad.I do missed all museums and “hermitage”,,….
cool pics, shitty presentation. seriously, there was no effort to really explain any of this stuff other than a couple of drawings.
snaks: you’re a fucktard.
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Soo glad that I’m A muslim
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This shit is sick - as a Maori we would only play football with severed heads and eat their bodies this shit is just sick. Bad Russians.
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Is it me, or all the torture part is not from Russia at all. I believe it’s from the Torture Museum in Prague.
Bat Englishrussia!
Makes me think, if these devices were still used on murders, rapists, child molestors etc… would our prisons still be as full?
They forgot the Inquisition’s soft cushion and armchair as shown by Monty Python.
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!!!!
only six first pictures are from the Kunstkammera, and the rest are from a private exhibition that once took place in another museum of St. Petersburg - Peter and Paul Fortress.
the talent behind the creators of these devices was great. I think we should of kept things like this around. These torture items have been greatly crafted, but society today doesn’t see that. We should remember that these could still be used and, if we break the laws, could be used on us. Just a little something to think about!
The devices to lend a wonderful sense of horror to any judicial proceeding, but there are a couple points everyone is missing. 1) These devices were common practice of the SECULAR judicial systems of the day…just as trial by jury or knowing what you are accused of. 2) RUSSIA IS NOT CATHOLIC. Never has been, Never will be. This is NOT the Inquisition (Catholic or Python).
Torture stuff is sick. How people can be so cruel to each other :/
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El zar Pedro I fundó en San Petersburgo (Rusia) un museo con las cosas, objetos e instrumentos mas espantosos y aberrantes que encontró en su país. En él se pueden encontrar desde animales y personas conservados en alcohol hasta los instrumentos de…
You sound like a tiger
oh, so this is where the exhibition i saw last week came from. My stomach wasn’t working properly the whole day after.
as for the malformed embryos they’re a perfectly usual sight at any medical school.
i believe mankind should use more their brains instead of using much their hands
god created man to use their inteligence instead of violence
but i can see that progress hasnt been done until nowdays
sad but true torture still exists but unfortunatelly so visible to mens eyes like back then
is this christian culture??
Those torture devices are from Torture museum in Prague…?
I remember seeing a temporary torture exhibit in San Diego. I didn’t eat dinner that night as the risk of throwing up.
This is cool!
Oh my god what cruel people……………
Really bad.
It’s against the HUMAN rites..