The Museum Gevangenpoort, or ’Prison Gate Museum’ is a museum situated in the Hague’s old town prison, which is located inside one of the medieval fortified gates. The museum has a varied collection of instruments, including a number of of devices used for torture, interrogation and punishment. Several of the prison rooms are well preserved, including the Ridderkamer, which was one of the cells reserved for more privileged captives. Prisoners have included the Burgomaster of Utrecht, Cornelis de Witt, who was held here before being executed by an Orangist mob in 1672.
