A sex museum is a museum that displays erotic art, historical sexual aids, and documents on the history of erotica. They were popular in Europe at the end of the 1960s and during the 1970s, the era of the sexual revolution. Since the 1990s, these museums are often called erotic museums or erotic art museums instead of sex museums. The National Gallery in London, a famous museum. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Erotica. ... A sex toy is a term for any object or device that is primarily used in facilitating human sexual pleasure. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Erotic art. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Notable sex museums

Europe

• The Musée de l'Érotisme in Paris opened in 1998. [1]
• There is a small sex museum in the heart of the Amsterdam red light district, de Wallen, and a second larger and more upscale one (Venus Temple) nearby, on the Damrak. Venus Temple is the oldest still operating sex museum; it opened in 1985.
• The Erotic Art Museum near the Reeperbahn in Hamburg opened in 1992. [2]
• The Beate Uhse Erotic Museum in Berlin opened in 1996. It claims to be "the world's largest erotic museum". [3]
• The Museum Erotica in Copenhagen opened in 1993. [4]
• The Museo de la Erotica in Barcelona opened in 1996. [5]
• The first Russian sex museum opened in 2004 in Saint Petersburg; it claims to exhibit the preserved penis of Rasputin. [6]
• While not itself a sex museum, the National Archaeological Museum in Naples opened its extensive collection of historic erotic art in its Secret Cabinet to the public in 2000. Most of the exhibits are from Greek and Roman times, and many were recovered from nearby Pompeii. [7]
• The Museo d'Arte Erotica, devoted to the erotic history of Venice and showing historical and contemporary erotic art opened in Venice , Italy in February 2006. [8]
• A London Academy of Sex and Relationships will open in London in 2006. Rather than emphasizing erotica and pornography, it will foxus on educational exhibits on topics such as orgasms, sexual chemistry and sexual dysfunction. [9]
• The Secretum or Cupboard 55, containing erotic objects at the British Museum, London.

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America

• The Museum of Sex in New York City, the first sex museum in the U.S., opened in 2002. [10]
• The Erotic Museum in Hollywood opened in January 2004. [11]
• The World Erotic Art Museum in Miami Beach opened on 16 October 2005. [12]

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Asia

• The first sex museum in China opened in 1999 in the center of Shanghai; in 2001 it moved to the outskirts of the city. It was variously called "Museum of Ancient Chinese Sex Culture" or "Dalin Cultural Exhibition" after its founder, sexologist Dr. Liu Dalin. In early 2004 it moved again, to Tongli, and is now known as the China Sex Museum, with over three thousand erotic artifacts. [13] [14]
• India's first sex museum opened in Mumbai (Bombay) in 2002. [15]
• South Korea's first sex museum, Asia Eros Museum, opened in Seoul in 2003. [16]
• The small National Museum of Erotica in Canberra opened in 2001 and closed in 2003.
• In Japan, there are many sex museums called "Hihokan (House of Hidden Treasures)" everywhere across the country. They are located in amusement centers in popular sightseeing spots or spa resorts, and ran by individuals, not by organizations. They date back to the 1960s–70s; more recently such type of amusement resorts for elder men have declined, and many personal sex museums closed in the 1990s.[17] [18] [19] [20] [21]

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Online

• AMEA/World Museum of Erotic Art is a free online sex museum based in Amsterdam; it was started in 1996.

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External links

• The Era of Sex Museums, by Marianna Beck and Jack Hafferkamp, in Libido, the Journal of Sex and Sensibility, vol 10(3), Fall 1998. A survey and review of various sex museums.
• World Erotic Art Museum, Miami Curator: Naomi Wilzig, Art Director: Julian Murphy, Sales and Marketing Director: Robert Harbour
• World Museum of Erotic Art, Amsterdam
• Hamburg Erotic Art Museum
• Museo D'Arte Erotica of Venice

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