The Torture Tower, active till the 17th, century houses the new Amber Museum. Many-colored, amazing specimens of Baltic amber, amber sculptures, furniture, jewelry, old and new, are exquisitely displayed in many small brick chambers on several floors of the old tower. The visitors walk up the 6 stories of curving stairs, smoothed out by centuries of prisoners, visitors and tourists. Smallest chambers have lovely displays of old drawings depicting many different ways to skin, flay, chop, break and pierce the bodies of torturees, and discreet speakers emit screams of the victims. Fun! There are some weird tools, iron manacles, and a box into which people were locked in a sitting position and then pierced with iron pokers through cunningly placed holes. The inventiveness of the methods of torture is astonishing.

The photo with the fly in the amber is shot through a magnifying glass, placed over most of the specimens with inclusions. One even had a small lizard. Some pieces are larger that a human head, as you can see in the photo with my face.

No special plans for tomorrow, just visits with family and friends. One of my friends has a trained special-needs dog, who works with disabled children as a form of therapy and I will meet that dog and see how it's done. I hope to learn something about the training methods.