World Erotic Art Museum Miami, Erotic art museum in South Beach, Miami, US
The World Erotic Art Museum Miami is an art museum in South Beach housing over 4,000 works across various mediums including sculptures, drawings, paintings, photographs, and historical objects. The collection spans multiple continents and documents human expression through art history.
Naomi Wilzig opened the museum in 2005 in a 600 m² Art Deco building on Washington Avenue, two blocks from Ocean Drive. In its early years it faced reservations from city officials and public opinion. From 2012, artistic director Helmut Schuster enabled international exchange exhibitions, including a Helmut Newton solo show co-organized with the Museum der Moderne Salzburg.
The collection presents artworks from different cultures and time periods, showing how various societies have expressed sexuality and the human body through art. Works from multiple continents reveal different approaches to a universal human subject across civilizations.
The museum occupies a 600 m² Art Deco building on Washington Avenue, two blocks from Ocean Drive and near Lincoln Road. Look for the entrance marked 1205, with block letters reading "WORLD EROTIC ART MUSEUM" and "The Naomi Wilzig Collection" above the glass door. The collection is spread over the floors, so allow enough time to see it all.
Naomi Wilzig added erotic kitsch to her fine-art holdings, including the phallus prop from Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange. The museum also holds a library on erotic art that keeps growing. In 2011 it premiered the first US showing of rare erotic Rembrandt etchings from the Barony of Fulwood Trust.
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