Official App of the exhibition Venice Secrets Exhibition

Venice Secrets: Crime and Justice

World Premiere on crime, justice and the death penalty

For the first time they will be released by the State Archives, museums and private collections, artifacts and secret documents.

The March 31 will open an exhibition of original artifacts, instruments of death and torture, the original court documents show for the first time, to tell the public as the Serenissima applied Justice, so severe but with certain traits and cruel punishments.

Suggestive scenes, testimonies and unpublished documents, killing machines, real plastinated bodies are just some of the elements that combine to make Venice Secrets a unique exhibition of its kind and to show mysteries, secrets, death and darkness.

In a large building through a series of five floors divided into 36 rooms the visitor will learn about and discover some of the grimmest stories, penalties imposed and the numerous death sentences for various crimes.

Thousands of mutilated people, marked focus, tried for sodomy, burned alive, drowned and killed on the scaffold, will live again in these rooms with the sole purpose of making known their history to visitors.

They will also be exposed corpses and numerous plastinated real human organs in an anatomical theater rebuilt demonstrating how the bodies of executed prisoners were used daily for anatomical studies between Padua and Venice.

They will be visible the most important and terrifying killing machines and used torture as an instrument of justice.

"Venice Secrets. Crime and Justice", a unique experience, a step back in time, a chance to learn about the most cruel and bloody side of a Republic advanced for its time.

The exhibition is divided into four sections and 36 exhibition halls (Section One: Justice and torture; the second section: Prisons and prisoners; third section: The ritual of executions; fourth section: Inquisition and the Holy Office)