The Beate Uhse Erotic Museum is a sex museum

Sex museum

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....

 in the Charlottenburg

Charlottenburg

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 district of Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany

Germany

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It was opened in 1996 near Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station

Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station

Berlin Zoologischer Garten station was the central transport facility in West Berlin during the division of the city, and thereafter for the western central area of Berlin until opening of the new Berlin Central Station on 28 May 2006...

 by Beate Uhse

Beate Uhse-Rotermund

Beate Uhse-Rotermund was a German pilot and entrepreneur. The only female stunt pilot in Germany in the 1930s, after World War II she started the first sex shop in the world. The company she started, Beate Uhse AG, is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and is the world leader in sales of...

, the early stunt pilot and entrepreneur, who in 1962 started the world's first sex shop

Sex shop

A sex shop, erotic shop is a shop that sells products related to adult sexual or erotic entertainment, such as sex toys, lingerie, clothing, pornography, and other related products...

. The exhibition features historic Asian and European erotic art

Erotic art

Erotic art covers any artistic work that is intended to evoke erotic arousal or that depicts scenes of love-making. It includes paintings, engravings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, music and writing.-Definition:...

 including several lithographies by Heinrich Zille

Heinrich Zille

Rudolf Heinrich Zille , German illustrator and photographer, was born in Radeburg near Dresden, as the son of watchmaker Johann Traugott Zill and Ernestine Louise...

 as well as early pornographic films. It claims to be "the world's largest erotic museum".

External links

Museum information at Berlin.de

• In Berlin, the Art of Sex, by Marianna Beck and Jack Hafferkamp. The Washington Post
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  , April 18, 1999.