Erotic Museum Amsterdam: Giant Sculpture, Kama Sutra and Lennon Drawings

A two-metre-high penis sculpture is one of the first distinctive details associated with the Erotic Museum Amsterdam. The museum is focused on erotic material and is described as Amsterdam's oldest and first sex museum, with a collection that includes pornographic images, movies, sexual history and erotic art.

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What is the Erotic Museum Amsterdam?

The Erotic Museum Amsterdam is a museum dedicated to erotic material, including images, films and information about erotica. More broadly, sex museums display erotic art, historical sexual aids and documents on the history of erotica. They became popular in Europe at the end of the 1960s and during the 1970s, while “erotic museum” and “erotic art museum” became more common terms from the 1990s.

The museum is described in the Red Light District Amsterdam Tour, which includes it as one of the places on its route.

What can you see inside the museum?

The collection includes pornographic images and movies, alongside exhibits focused on the vagina. Rare Kama Sutra positions are shown, giving the museum a subject-specific collection rather than a single display devoted to one type of erotic material.

The museum also includes information about the sexual revolution that started in the 1970s. Another detail recorded by the tour source is a set of drawings John Lennon made of Yoko Ono, described in connection with a time when razors were not yet used by females.

The two-metre-high penis sculpture is another notable feature: it is presented as something visitors can photograph with. These exhibits give you concrete things to look for inside the building without treating the listed details as a complete catalogue of everything on display.

What are the Erotic Museum Amsterdam opening hours and admission?

The tour source describes the museum as open daily from 11 am until 2 am. It describes the entrance fee as about 10 euros.

Those are the visiting details carried by the tour material, so use them as planning information alongside the Amsterdam Red Light District route rather than as a wider claim about current ticketing arrangements.

Is it the only sex museum in the city?

No. The tour source mentions a second sex museum at Damrak number 18. That distinction matters when you are choosing which museum you mean: the exhibits and visiting details above refer to the Erotic Museum Amsterdam, not the other venue.

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