The Museum will virtually bring to your homes a selection of photographs coming from our archive. Every week you will discover a new image.
Tattooed criminal from Bilbao’s prison, beginning of the 20th century
Lombroso identifies tattoo, a practice that, between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, diffuses mainly in prison, as a primitive feature that links criminals to primordial populations and therefore is a proof of delinquency. The Museum’s photographic collection preserves over one hundred photographs of tattooed criminals, most of them from the “Le Nuove” prison in Turin, as well as from French and German jails.