Somehow we didn’t get to The World Erotic Art Museum when we took that junior high school field trip to Miami. Don’t you make the same mistake the next time you are in the south Florida.
The World Erotic Art Museum is the fascinating creation of erotic art enthusiast Naomi Wilzig who stocked 12,000 square feet in the middle of South Beach with $100 million worth of art from her personal collection. For your perusal are paintings, sculptures and artifacts, both modern and historic. (If you saw A Clockwork Orange and remember the art statues sprinkled through Stanley Kubrick’s film you are already familiar with a few of the works on display here).
What is so interesting about visiting WEAM is that the art itself is erotic, a testament to human lust and sexuality. But the environment the art is displayed in is that of a regular straitlaced museum, like those we did visit on our junior high school field trips. After an hour here the juxtaposition of it was a little unnerving.
Open seven days a week, 11am to midnight. $15 entrance fee.
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At most museums exhibits are behind glass cases and velvet ropes and DO NOT TOUCH signs. Not so at the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s interactive playhouse dedicated to the science of psychology and perception. Here every exhibit is an activity: Refract light, create illusions, defy gravity, distort sound and mess with your mind. Even the preponderance of children isn’t enough to make it uncool for grown-ups (although you’ll cut down on number of tykes running around by visiting during a school day). Don’t let the Exploratorium’s classical exterior fool you — this is as unstuffy and well, fun, as a museum can get.
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This is where Freud would go were he to tour northern Iceland. The Icelandic Phallological Museum contains a collection of preserved phallic specimens of every mammal species found in and around this Scandinavian island country including a bear, reindeer and whale as well as a Changeling, Merman and Elf. The variety of shapes and textures of the male members on display is disturbingly mesmerizing. The museum’s curator often personally gives a tour to guests and is rather passionate — maybe a little too passionate — about his exhibits. The museum is located in the town of Húsavíkurbær in a small roadside building (not that size matters). Open from noon to 6pm, mid-May through mid-September.
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Art that's so bad it's good.
My dream of producing museum-quality art lives! Specifically, it lives in the basement of the Dedham Community Theatre outside of Boston. That’s where the Museum of Bad Art hosts a collection of works such as a painting of three dead gorillas next to a two-headed man. MoBA began in 1992 with the work “Lucy in the Field with Flowers,” which was literally scavenged from a trash bin. And it has been all downhill for the museum since then. MoBA is well worth the admission place, which is free. Open Sunday through Thursday 2-9pm, Friday, Saturday and holidays from 1-10pm.
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