The picture gallery led us into a library, with book shelves and a table of Mr. Ripley with globe, maps, old books, watch and a small movie was being played depicting his adventures. Then one of the bookshelves moved and we were led into another exhibit - African face masks. It had all kinds of weird face masks which people in Africa used during ceremonies and rituals many years ago.
There was also the famous two-headed calf, which looked pretty strange. Then there was solid lightning (yes, I mean it !), called fulgurites.
Solid Lightning
In this gallery there was one amazing genuine Allosaurus skull, and we clicked pictures with our hands inside its mouth. It must have been scary in real. And yes, we also got a picture clicked with a dummy dressed as a member of one of the African tribes. There was also on display the strange torture technique in China in early days, as the punishment for lying was to get roasted tied around a pole (outrageous!!). The drawings on Ostrich eggs were pretty impressive.
The Chinese beer jars and kettles were displayed in a huge showcase and on the ceiling one could get inspired by the huge collection of lighters from around the world. The clothes and shoes worn by the tallest woman in the world were on also on display. There was also a big collection of Matchstick Spanish armada fleet miniatures displayed beneath a glass flooring, it looked awesome.
Collection of Matchstick Spanish armada fleet miniatures
There was also a tank full of cockroaches and a glass dome inside it, so one could put its head inside and see cockroaches crawling all over the place. And there were some exhibits from the Titanic too. It was so nice to see things brought up from the seabed of titanic like a thermo-col glass, which had shrunken to a half an inch glass due to the pressure of the water under the sea and a small piece of the ship too.
The next was the Berlin Wall, Ripley's very own piece of Berlin wall, after it was brought down and on the lower part of the wall it was clearly written 'Made in Germany'. The next exhibit was about skulls, masks and necklaces made of body parts. One of the necklace's had 6 human fingers tied with a thread, and this kind of necklace used to be worn by women of some African tribe. These were worn by them, after their husband's death and the fingers of their husbands were cut according to the number of children and made into a necklace. Most of this exhibit was about the rituals women had to carry out after their husbands expired.
This led us into the next exhibit - Torture Room, many ways of torture during the earlier ages were shown here. The first one was a small wooden box, and criminals were locked in those boxes and left to die with only a small window in the box to breathe. In the exhibit, they had even shown a skull hanging out the hole of the box. Then there was the method of electric shock which killed instantly. Another brutal way of torture was hanging a criminal from a wall, with hands and legs ties with a rope and a heavy chain with weight was put around the stomach; this way the body got pulled from both sides and ripped apart.
The cow mask was another medieval century torture device, and Iron Maiden, a wood structure which had piercing sticks inside and the criminal was made to stand inside it and then it was closed slowly, killing the person immediately in the most gruesome way. As the pointed steel sticks inside were put exactly in the right places to pierce heart, eyes and other parts of the body. There was also a wooden box to hang people and the heavy piece of wood fitted to the ground, with holes for neck and hands was put on culprits to punish them severely. A real Human brain, which was cut out and was there on exhibit, this brain belonged to a criminal in earlier times and it was dissected to see the difference between a normal and a criminal mind.
The Chinese beer jars and kettles were displayed in a huge showcase and on the ceiling one could get inspired by the huge collection of lighters from around the world. The clothes and shoes worn by the tallest woman in the world were on also on display. There was also a big collection of Matchstick Spanish armada fleet miniatures displayed beneath a glass flooring, it looked awesome.
There was also a tank full of cockroaches and a glass dome inside it, so one could put its head inside and see cockroaches crawling all over the place. And there were some exhibits from the Titanic too. It was so nice to see things brought up from the seabed of titanic like a thermo-col glass, which had shrunken to a half an inch glass due to the pressure of the water under the sea and a small piece of the ship too.
The next was the Berlin Wall, Ripley's very own piece of Berlin wall, after it was brought down and on the lower part of the wall it was clearly written 'Made in Germany'. The next exhibit was about skulls, masks and necklaces made of body parts. One of the necklace's had 6 human fingers tied with a thread, and this kind of necklace used to be worn by women of some African tribe. These were worn by them, after their husband's death and the fingers of their husbands were cut according to the number of children and made into a necklace. Most of this exhibit was about the rituals women had to carry out after their husbands expired.
This led us into the next exhibit - Torture Room, many ways of torture during the earlier ages were shown here. The first one was a small wooden box, and criminals were locked in those boxes and left to die with only a small window in the box to breathe. In the exhibit, they had even shown a skull hanging out the hole of the box. Then there was the method of electric shock which killed instantly. Another brutal way of torture was hanging a criminal from a wall, with hands and legs ties with a rope and a heavy chain with weight was put around the stomach; this way the body got pulled from both sides and ripped apart.
The cow mask was another medieval century torture device, and Iron Maiden, a wood structure which had piercing sticks inside and the criminal was made to stand inside it and then it was closed slowly, killing the person immediately in the most gruesome way. As the pointed steel sticks inside were put exactly in the right places to pierce heart, eyes and other parts of the body. There was also a wooden box to hang people and the heavy piece of wood fitted to the ground, with holes for neck and hands was put on culprits to punish them severely. A real Human brain, which was cut out and was there on exhibit, this brain belonged to a criminal in earlier times and it was dissected to see the difference between a normal and a criminal mind.