The Beate Uhse Erotic Museum (German: Beate Uhse Erotik-Museum) (1996 – 2014) was a sex museum in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany.
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| Established | 19 January 1996 |
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| Dissolved | 14 September 2014 |
| Location | Joachimstaler Straße 4, 10623 Berlin, Germany |
| Website | erotikmuseum.beate-uhse.com |
The museum was opened in 1996 near Berlin Zoologischer Garten station by Beate Uhse, the early stunt pilot and entrepreneur, who in 1962 started the world's first sex shop. The collection features historic Asian and European erotic art including several lithographs by Heinrich Zille as well as early pornographic films. It claims to be "the world's largest erotic museum".
The museum was closed in September 2014.[1][2] Initially the museum was looking for new premises, but due to the market development in Berlin the museum never reopened. For the exhibits, a loss in value of €1.2 million was recorded in the 2015 annual report.[3]
See also
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edit- ^ "Beate Uhse in Berlin-Charlottenburg: Erotikmuseum aus dem Verkehr gezogen". tagesspiegel.de (in German). 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- ^ "Beate Uhse Erotik-Museum". berlin.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ^ "Geschäftsbericht der Beate Uhse AG 2015" (PDF). Website der Beate Uhse AG (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-11. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
- "In Berlin, the Art of Sex", by Marianna Beck and Jack Hafferkamp. The Washington Post, April 18, 1999.
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