Having visited this museum, it is something of a surprise that enough people remained sufficiently alive and untortured to maintain the population on the island. In the Mdina dungeons you are treated to various waxwork dummies in poses of extreme duress and agony, re-enacting scenes of some of the pretty hideous tortures that were metered out to people in days gone by, from the Romans up until Napoleon arrived and started trying to calm everybody down and introduce less blood-thirsty forms of judicial retribution.
