The comprehensive showcase makes the most of current fascination with primeval anguish — as seen everywhere from 'House of the Dragon' to 'The Northman.'
Institutions publicly showcasing the history of torture have become an increasingly common feature across Europe, from Amsterdam and Bruges to Prague and Siena. But they’re generally more restrained, white-gallery-wall storehouses. This American rejoinder is, according to Grach — who’s visited the continental counterparts — meant by contrast to lean into the imagined.
While the menagerie is called the Medieval Torture Museum, its purview extends to punishments innovated and popularized in the modern age, including the electric chair and the Colombian necktie, in which throats are slashed. Notably missing from the thorough display, however, are three techniques — lynching, waterboarding and force-feeding — that American citizens and U.S. soldiers have employed in the recent past.
Grach, an émigré from Donetsk, Ukraine, who left the country after Russia first invaded the Donbas region in 2014, had no background in curation or immersive tableaux before founding his museum. He explains that the endeavor has required the expertise of Medievalists, voice actors and set designers — plus a group to produce his afflicted mannequins, which are made of polymers and silicone, not wax.
“Initially, it was a big problem to buy figures of believable appearance,” Grach says. “We even tried to order them from adult doll factories, asking them to cover their mouths and remove their genitals. In response, we received a reasonable question: ‘How will we use them then?’ As a result, actors were hired to take facial prints. Several times we had to redo it. One actor even lost part of his mustache.
Visitors exit through the gift shop, which includes T-shirts emblazoned with a stretching device and the slogan “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Longer.” Grach observes, “after spending an hour in the museum, immersed in its eerie atmosphere, people go outside, look at the world around them and realize with a sense of relief that it is not so bad.”
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