Musée de l'érotisme

Musée de l'érotisme, Paris

The Musée de l'érotisme was a museum of erotic art in Paris . It opened in 1997 and was located in the 18th arrondissement ( 72 Boulevard de Clichy ), in the Pigalle entertainment district , next to the Moulin Rouge . On November 6, 2016, the exhibits were auctioned and the museum closed.

collection

Vase erotique

Olisbos double

The collection ranged from ancient religious art from India, Japan and Africa to contemporary erotic art and erotic short films from the silent film era. The house had seven exhibition levels. The first two were devoted to pre-Columbian, Greek, and Asian phallic and fertility symbolism. One floor dealt with prostitution and brothels in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The upper two floors showed changing exhibitions of contemporary artists. The museum contained 2,000 exhibits and had 170,000 - mostly female - visitors annually.

See also

• List of Paris museums
• List of erotic museums

Web links

Commons : Musée de l'érotisme  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Musée de l'érotisme (French, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fermeture du musée de l'Erotisme in Paris. In: Radio France Internationale . November 5, 2016, accessed August 20, 2019 (French). 
2. ↑ Paris Life - No 34: A Nice Mix of Art, History and Sex. Metropolis Paris, January 16, 2004. (English)
3. ^ Paris - visite au Musée de l'érotisme. TV5, February 23, 2015. (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 1.2 ″  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 1.5 ″  E