The exhibition is organised into five sections. The first two deal with the social, political and religious aspects that encompass the activities of the Court. They provide the background information for the presentation of the apparatus and machines used in the torture sessions.

The overall intention of the exhibition is not to horrify visitors but to help them understand the scale of the activities of the Inquisition, its organisation, its importance as a former and censor of ideas and attitudes, and the consequences for the societies of the time.

Nevertheless, the apparatus and the machines used by the ecclesiastical courts to obtain confessions are presented in such a way as to transmit the anguish and dread that the accused felt, in what the inquisitors called "the vision of torture."

Throughout the exhibition the machines are accompanied by texts and pictures that give the viewer fuller understanding of what is being observed. The order of the exhibition intends to aid comprehension of the social dimension of the dread, if not terror, caused by the possibility of being accused before the Court. This is the main intention of the display, avoiding morbidity as much as possible.

The machines selected are those most commonly used by the different inquisitional courts, both ecclesiastical and civil, from Spain and other European countries. It is important to point out that the Spanish courts rarely used instruments of torture, with the pulley, water torture and the rack the most commonly used, occasionally accompanied by other tortures usually involving fire. In contrast, the civil courts were particularly cruel, above all when dealing with certain groups that were considered dangerous for society, and it is the implements they used that make up the majority of the instruments on display.

ORGANISATION OF CONTENT
1. Inquisitio. Concept of inquisition during the first millennium in Europe
— Heresy, as a synonym of dissident, not only religious but also political and social.
— The crime lesae maiestatis. Against the established powers.
2. The Faith Court
— The Inquisition in Spain and in Portugal.
— Organisation of the Inquisition Court.
3. Solicitatio ad turpia
— The procedure. Steps taken upon instigating inquisitional proceedings from the point of view of the accuser and the accused.
— The civil and inquisitional prisons.
— Torture.
— The condemned.
— The sentences.
4. The auto-de-fé
— De levi abjuration.
— De vehementi abjuration.
5. Witches and sorcerers