Museu Eròtic de Barcelona Barcelona
The Museum of Erotics of Barcelona (MEB), in the heart of one of the most beautiful and visited cities in the world, is one of the most emblematic places in Barcelona. Unique in Spain, the MEB, the most exciting museum in Barcelona, shares the history of eroticism in art through the more than 1,000 pieces on display. It is a museum of the history of erotica from the beginning of time to the present.
A visit to the MEB allows a journey that begins in the Upper Paleolithic, Ancient Egypt and classical Greece and Rome. It continues its journey in Medieval Europe and continues in Asia, from Japan of shunga eroticism, and eroticism in China, in India of sculptures and carvings in wood and stone from the 18th century that represent Kamasutra postures. You can also see popular African and pre-Columbian erotic crafts, postcards and erotic photographs from Europe at the end of the 19th century and learn about the beginnings of Spanish pornographic cinema through three short films commissioned by King Alfonso XIII of Borbón himself (great-grandfather of the current King of Spain ) and filmed in Barcelona's Chinatown.
Original works by Picasso, Dalí and Klimt share space with the history of the first vibrators and with great erotic myths in history such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley or John Lennon.
The MEB is the only museum in the world in which the history of the Catalan Kamasutra is told and that has a room permanently dedicated to the notion of diversity. Visitors can thus get closer to the rich and different orientation of desires from the history of erotic art in a unique tour that begins in ancient Egypt, which goes through the origins of sexology as a science and stops at the first LGBT manifestation. from Spain and which took place in Barcelona.
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