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Museum of Sex
233 Fifth Avenue
(at 27th Street)
New York, NY  10016
Tel: (212) 689-6337
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$15.25 seniors, students, $16.75 general.
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Dates

Ongoing

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Mon – Thurs, Sun: 10 am – 8 pm
Fri, Sat: 10 am – 9 pm
Highlighting material and artifacts from different continents, cultures, times periods and media, the museum's permanent collection features over 15,000 artifacts, including works of art, photography, clothing and costumes, technological inventions and historical ephemera. Rotating exhibitions probe the history, evolution and cultural significance of human sexuality.
  • Directions: Subway: N, R, 6 to 28th Street

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Museum of Sex

Opened in 2002, the Museum of Sex is an institution with little precedent in the art world. Founded by Daniel Gluck, the museum devotes itself to the positive exploration and exhibition of human sexuality. The museum's first exhibition, NYCSEX: How New York Transformed Sex in America, looked at the evolution of eroticism in America and paved the way for future exhibitions examining BDSM, fetishes, pornography and erotica.
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Museum of Sex Listings

  • The Sex Lives of Animals

    Ongoing Materials on display in this exhibition explore the nature of sexual intercourse between animals, the different mating rituals of various species and the evolutionary possibility that animals, like humans, use sex for non-reproductive purposes.

  • Spotlight on the Permanent Collection

    Ongoing This exhibition looks at sex education, sexual machinery, erotic art and photography as well as sculpture.

  • Action: Sex and the Moving Image

    Ongoing Sex on the silver screen is the subject of this exhibition. Featuring early forms of moving image pornography, this exhibition looks at the history of sex on film and examines the moral panic surrounding the pornography industry as well as the positive and negative effects of sexploitation films such as Debby Does Dallas and Deep Throat.

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