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  • The Museum of Eroticism in Paris opened in 1997.
  • 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.
  • The Beate Uhse Erotic Museum in Berlin opened in 1996. It claims to be "the world's largest erotic museum".
  • The Museum Erotica in Copenhagen opened in 1993. It was closed in 2009 due to financial problems.
  • The Museo de la Erotica in Barcelona opened in 1996.
  • The first Russian sex museum opened in 2004 in Saint Petersburg; it claims to exhibit the preserved penis of Rasputin.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Secretum or Cupboard 55, containing erotic objects at the British Museum, London.
  • The Sex Machines Museum in Prague, Czech Republic, contains "an exposition of mechanical erotic appliances, the purpose of which is to bring pleasure and allow extraordinary and unusual positions during intercourse." On display in the museum are "more than 200 objects and mechanical appliances on view, a gallery of art with erotic themes, a cinema with old erotic films, erotic clothing and many other things pertaining to human sexuality.
  • First erotic museum in Lithuania opened in Kaunas, July 13, 2009.
  • Athens's first sex museum, the Greek Erotica Museum, opened in the center Omonoia Kapodistriou 44 in 2012.
  • Moscow's first sex museum, named "Tochka G" ('G Spot') opened in 2011.
  • The Erotic Museum in Warsaw, the first in Poland sex museum opened in 2011 with over 2,000 exhibits, reveals the erotic fascinations of artists from all continents. The museum closed at the beginning of 2012 as they search for a new location and more funds to keep the museum afloat.

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