{{dmy|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox museum | name = Museum of Sexual Cultures | image = Scientifically-enlightening museum of world sexual cultures.jpg | established = {{Start date|1999}} | location = [[Kharkiv]], [[Ukraine]] | type = Sex museum | collections = Antiquities, photography | architect = Valeriy Aksak }} The '''Museum of Sexual Cultures''' ({{Langx|uk|Музей сексу і сексуальних культур світу|translit=Muzey seksu i seksual'nikh kul'tur svitu}}) is a scientific and educational museum, which explores the sexual cultures of a number of countries. The first of its kind in both [[Ukraine]], and in post-[[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Eastern Europe]],<ref name="moygorod" /> it is located in [[Kharkiv]].
==Background== The museum was established in 1999 by the Department of Sexology and Medical Psychology of the [[Kharkiv Medical Academy of Post-graduate Education|Kharkiv Medical Academy]].<ref name="moygorod">{{Cite web |title=Музей секса и сексуальных культур мира |trans-title=Museum of Sex and Sexual Cultures of the World |url=https://kharkov.moygorod.ua/ru/museum/muzej-seksualnykh-kultur-mira/ |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=moygorod.ua |publisher=Музей секса и сексуальных культур мира |language=ru}}</ref> Based on the collection of Valentin Kryshtal,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gazeta.ua |date=2021-05-17 |title=Сбитые самолеты и сексуальная культура - чем занимаются музеи Украины |trans-title=Downed planes and sexual culture - what museums in Ukraine do |url=https://gazeta.ua/ru/articles/history/_sbitye-samolety-i-seksualnaya-kultura-chem-zanimayutsya-muzei-ukrainy/1032201 |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=Gazeta.ua |language=ru}}</ref> it is the first of its kind in any post-Soviet country, as well as the first in Ukraine, the museum reflects the sexual cultures of a number of countries.<ref name="mykharkov">{{Cite web |year=2018 |title=Куда сходить: 13 необычных музеев Харькова |trans-title=Where to go: 13 unusual museums of Kharkov |url=https://mykharkov.info/interesno/kuda-shodit-13-neobychnyh-muzeev-harkova-16617.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=День Харькова: 9 причин посетить город |trans-title=Kharkiv Day: 9 reasons to visit the city |url=https://24tv.ua/kharkiv/ru/den_harkova_2017_9_prichin_posetit_gorod_n856074 |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=24 Канал |language=ru}}</ref> It was designed by the architect Valery Aksak.<ref name="057ua">{{Cite web |title=Музей секса и сексуальных культур в Харькове: что можно посмотреть и как попасть, - ФОТО |trans-title=Museum of Sex and Sexual Cultures in Kharkov: what to see and how to get there - PHOTOS |url=https://www.057.ua/news/3266253/muzej-seksa-i-seksualnyh-kultur-v-harkove-cto-mozno-posmotret-i-kak-popast-foto |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=057.ua - Сайт города Харькова |language=uk}}</ref> In 2021 a similar museum opened in [[Kyiv]].<ref name="057ua" />
==Collections and displays== [[File:Priapus_(Kharkiv_museum_of_sex).jpg|thumb|Statue of [[Priapus]] in the museum]] The museum has ten exhibition halls, which can only be visited once a person is over eighteen – the [[age of consent]] in Ukraine.<ref name="24tv">{{Cite web |title=ТОП-5 туристичних місць в Україні, пов'язаних з "полуничкою" (18+) |trans-title=TOP-5 tourist places in Ukraine related to "strawberry" (18+) |url=https://24tv.ua/kharkiv/top5_turistichnih_mists_v_ukrayini_povyazanih_z_polunichkoyu_18_n714883 |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=24 Канал |language=uk}}</ref> The museum also hosts a gallery aimed at teenagers, where youth-led events are held and that audiences over the age of 15 can attend.<ref name="24tv" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Музеи Харькова: ТОП-5 мест города, где стоит побывать, - ФОТО |trans-title=Museums of Kharkov: TOP-5 places of the city where it is worth to visit, - PHOTOS |url=https://www.057.ua/news/3264933/muzei-harkova-top-5-mest-goroda-gde-stoit-pobyvat-foto |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=057.ua - Сайт города Харькова |language=uk}}</ref> Topics such as [[Intimate relationship|intimacy]], and [[sexual orientation]] are included in the interpretation.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019 |title=Научат плохому: топ-5 мест для секс-образования в Харькове |trans-title=They will teach the bad: the top 5 places for sex education in Kharkov |url=https://mykharkov.info/news/nauchat-plohomu-top-5-mest-dlya-seks-obrazovaniya-v-harkove-80631.html}}</ref> Particular attention is paid to the prevention of [[sexually transmitted disease]]s, especially [[AIDS]].<ref name="moygorod" />
The collection includes antiquities, prints and drawings and contemporary collections of photography and ephemera.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Музей сексуальних культур {{!}} Музей Харків, Харківська область |trans-title=Museum of Sexual Cultures {{!}} Kharkiv Museum, Kharkiv Region |url=https://cityplaces.info/uk/Ukraine/Харківська-область/Харків/12606-Музей-сексуальних-культур |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=cityplaces.info |language=uk}}</ref> It also includes a medieval [[chastity belt]].<ref name="mykharkov" /> There is a statue of [[Priapus]] to which visitors can make offerings.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Андрій |first=Павлишин |date=2022-02-15 |title=Про що розповідають гіди в Харківському музеї сексуальних культур світу |trans-title=About what the guides in the Kharkiv Museum of Sexual Cultures tell the world |url=https://novyny.live/kharkov/o-chem-rasskazyvaiut-gidy-v-kharkovskom-muzee-seksualnykh-kultur-mira-39707.html |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=novyny.live |language=uk}}</ref>
The museum's retail offer is a [[sex shop]].<ref name="moygorod" /> In response to [[COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine|Ukraine's COVID-19]] vaccination campaign, the museum was one of a number of cultural institutions that Ukrainians could visit for free using their vaccination voucher.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Найцікавіші музеї України, на які не шкода витратити отриману за вакцинацію 1000 гривень |trans-title=The most interesting museums in Ukraine, which are not sorry to spend ₴1,000 received for vaccination |url=https://www.rbc.ua/ukr/styler/samye-interesnye-muzei-ukrainy-kotorye-zhal-1637066230.html |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=РБК-Украина |language=ru}}</ref>
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