Museum of Erotics and Mythology, Sex museum and mythological gallery in Sablon, Brussels, Belgium.
The Museum of Erotics and Mythology is an art museum focused on erotic and mythological works, housed within a house from the 18th century. The collection includes paintings, sculptures, Greco-Roman antiquities, carved ivory pieces, and Japanese prints.
The museum opened on 14 February 2012, Valentine's Day, in an 18th-century townhouse on rue Sainte-Anne. It displays the collection of Guy Martens, a retired occupational physician from Hasselt born in 1945, who began gathering erotic art at seventeen. After more than half a century he acquired the Sablon house to show some 800 objects across three floors.
The museum shows how different cultures have connected eroticism and mythology in their art and beliefs. Walking through the rooms, you sense how these themes shaped both daily life and artistic creation.
The museum is at rue Sainte-Anne 32 in the Sablon district. STIB tram lines 92 and 93 and bus lines 27, 48 and 95 stop at Petit Sablon and Grand Sablon. It opens Monday, Thursday and Friday from 14:00 to 20:00 and Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 17:30, so plan around those days.
The oldest item is a Sumerian clay tablet about six thousand years old. The collection also holds a first-century BC head of the hermaphrodite deity Attis, around 150 ivory pieces including netsuke, and a replica of Rasputin's penis.
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