Sexmuseum
At Damrak 18, Amsterdam’s Sexmuseum—also known as the Venustempel—opened on 22 March 1985, and it quickly established itself as the city’s oldest erotic museum. In 2015, it recorded 675,000 visitors, placing it among the most visited museums in the Netherlands. The museum’s story is inseparable from location: it occupies a 17th-century building on Damrak, close to Amsterdam Centraal station, and it presents sexuality as a subject with a history, not just a theme. Its rooms are named for cultural figures including Mata Hari, Oscar Wilde, Marquis de Sade, Rudolf Valentino, and Marquise de Pompadour, turning literary and popular notoriety into a map of changing attitudes. The collections trace an arc from ancient societies—such as Cleopatra’s entourage and the Romans—through the repressive Middle Ages, using pictures, recordings, photos, paintings, and artifacts to show how ideas about sex evolved. …
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