The Museum of Sex

When the Museum of Sex first emerged on New York City’s Fifth Avenue on October 5, 2002, it was without precedent in the museum world.

With its inaugural award winning exhibition, NYCSEX: How New York Transformed Sex in America, the Museum of Sex founded by Daniel Gluck, demonstrated its commitment to being an institution unlike any other, one wholly dedicated to the exploration of the history, evolution and cultural significance of human sexuality.

Advisors such as Steven Heller, Annie Sprinkle and June M. Reinisch, Director Emeritus for The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction as well as institutional collaborations with New York University’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York Historical Society and the Lesbian Herstory Archives have contributed to making the Museum of Sex one of the most dynamic and innovative institutions in the world.

The Museum’s permanent collection of over 15,000 artifacts is comprised of works of art, photography, clothing and costumes, technological inventions and historical ephemera. Additionally, the museum houses both a research library as well as an extensive multimedia library, which includes 8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm, BETA, VHS and DVDs. From fine art to historical ephemera to film, the Museum of Sex preserves an ever-growing collection of sexually related objects that would otherwise be destroyed and discarded due to their sexual content.

Exhibitions have included:

The Sex Lives of Animals
The Sex Lives of Robots
Sex in Design / Design in Sex
Molly Crabapple
Kink
Peeping, Probing & Porn
Disability & Sexuality
Men Without Suits
Stags, Smokers & Blue Movies
Sex Machines
Vamps & Virgins
Sex Among the Lotus
Get Off!
and many more...

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