Beate-Uhse Erotik-Museum

Beate-Uhse Erotik-Museum review

The three floors of this collection (housed above a flagship Beate-Uhse retail outlet offering the usual videos and sex toys) contain oriental prints; some daft showroom-dummy tableaux; and glass cases containing such delights as early Japanese dildos, Andean penis flutes, 17th-century chastity belts and a giant coconut that looks like an arse. There's a small, drab exhibit on pioneering sex researcher Magnus Hirschfeld, an inadequate item on Heinrich Zille and a corner documenting the career of Frau Uhse herself, who went from Luftwaffe pilot to annual sex-aid sales of €50 million. It's all oddly respectable, given the subject.