From 1428 to 1828, for 4 centuries, this constructing was the lodge the place many distinguished visitors have been housed in opposition to their will and with out extreme consolation. At this time it’s the Jail Gate Museum, a museum displaying what life was reserved for prisoners of the Dutch metropolis of The Hague.
Museum de Gevangenpoort
The jail was initially reserved for many who didn’t pay their money owed and to prisoners awaiting interrogation, so far as the seventeenth century prior detention was not thought of a penalty and you could possibly keep at the hours of darkness and slim cell for months and not using a specific purpose. Following celebrities and nobles have been additionally detained within the Jail Gate as punishment for plotting and having been devoted to espionage in opposition to the home of the Orange trainer. Already the primary room of the museum makes it clear that every one hope was left in there: an abundance of devices of torture appears clear that the interrogation course of was usually crueler than the captivity itself within the slim cells. And to suppose that The Hague is – in the present day – the worldwide metropolis of peace and justice…
Restraint units
The Museum de Gevangenpoort of Den Haag is closed on Mondays and opens from 10:00 to 17:00 (12/17 on the weekend). The doorway charge is € 7.5.
