Medieval Crime Museum
Legal-history museum of torture devices, shame masks and executioner's tools across four floors.
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This guide to the Medieval Crime Museum in Rothenburg ob der Tauber stands you in front of its most notorious exhibit and asks one question: who was the coin forger said to have died inside it in fifteen fifteen? It follows a Nuremberg professor, an old chronicle entry, a cloak of shame and a legal historian's doubts. Stand right in front of the figure, close enough to see the spikes.
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