Museum Galleries
More Than A Museum.
The Erotic Heritage Museum presents one of the world's most comprehensive collections exploring the history, creativity, science, culture, and artistic expression of human sexuality. Every gallery has been thoughtfully curated to challenge assumptions, celebrate creativity, and encourage meaningful conversation through immersive exhibits, rare artifacts, fine art, and interactive experiences.
"Every gallery tells a different story. Some celebrate artistic beauty. Others preserve forgotten history. Together they create an experience unlike any museum in the world."
Forbidden Gallery
Level One
The Forbidden Gallery asks a provocative question: when does desire on the page or canvas become too much for the world to handle?
Here, “forbidden” means the art that censors blushed at, publishers whispered about, and institutions tried to suppress—the images, books, photographs, and stories deemed too explicit, too unconventional, too kinky, or simply too honest about pleasure to be safely released into the world.
Featuring original artwork, rare publications, historical collectibles, provocative cultural artifacts, and immersive displays, this permanent exhibition explores how censorship has shaped erotic expression while celebrating creativity and freedom throughout history.
Once banned, buried, or forced underground, many of these works survived only because artists, collectors, and historians refused to let them disappear. Today they stand in the open as a testament to creative courage and freedom of expression—inviting you to linger, look closer, and decide for yourself why anyone ever tried to keep them hidden.
After all, the most forbidden things are not always on the walls—they are the thoughts you leave with.
Forbidden Gallery Level One
Step inside a richly layered exhibition space where historic paintings, contemporary works, sculpture, and symbolic objects share an intimate salon-style environment. Viewed from multiple angles, the room reveals new details in its artwork, architecture, and atmosphere.
Every Surface Becomes Part of the Exhibition
The experience extends beyond the artwork displayed at eye level. From the elevated ceiling view to the dramatic chandelier and layered architecture, the entire room contributes to the atmosphere of the Forbidden Gallery.
The Forbidden Gallery is designed to slow the visitor down. Every painting, object, installation, and architectural detail contributes to an environment that rewards observation, reflection, and discovery.
Forbidden Gallery Level Two
Level Two of the Forbidden Gallery invites you into the darkest corridors of human behavior—spaces where desire, power, obsession, and identity distort into forms that society deems unthinkable.
Here, one can learn about the importance of serial killer art and how understanding their visual expression can help us catch these violent criminals.
See one of the only known pieces of art created by the infamous necrophiliac, Karen Greenlee and take a journey into her mind and past.
Visit our wall focusing on female grooming and manipulation which highlights an often overlooked form of abuse, revealing how some women have used trust, emotional leverage, and authority roles to exploit minors.
The gallery’s exploration culminates with the von Hagens body pieces, which blur the boundary between scientific dissection and artistic presentation. These plastinated forms expose the literal inner workings of the human body while asking viewers to confront complex ethical questions: When does the body become an object? How does death transform the meaning of flesh, intimacy, or consent? Why is the human form—living or deceased—so central to our understanding of desire, fear, and transgression?
Together, these installations create a charged environment where guests can consider an uncomfortable truth about humanity: the same mind capable of love, pleasure, and intimacy is also capable of fixation, violence, and taboo.
The Royo Gallery
Step into a dream painted in flesh and flame. The Royo Gallery celebrates the breathtaking works of Spanish masters Luis and Romulo Royo, whose art captures the eternal tension between power and vulnerability, fantasy and flesh.
Beauty Is Fierce. Desire Is Divine.
From ethereal warriors to forbidden lovers, Royo's imagery invites you into worlds where beauty is fierce, desire is divine, and imagination knows no shame.
Every brushstroke blurs the line between myth and seduction—reminding us that eroticism is, above all, an act of creation.
A sensual sanctuary within the Erotic Heritage Museum, The Royo Gallery pays homage to the artists' iconic vision of passion, rebellion, and the sublime.
A world where myth, desire, rebellion, and the human form become one.
Sex & The
Weimar Republic
Immerse yourself in the intoxicating world of 1920s Germany, where liberation, decadence, and artistic rebellion collided in the smoky glow of the Weimar Republic.
A Crucible of Erotic Revolution
Wedged between war and dictatorship, the Weimar era became one of the most sexually expressive periods in modern history. Sensual, subversive, and startlingly modern, this exhibit reveals how a society on the brink became a crucible of erotic revolution.
Its cabarets, queer spaces, artists, performers, and radical thinkers challenged convention and created an electric culture of liberation, experimentation, and possibility.
But this freedom was fragile. As the Nazis rose to power, the cabarets, queer spaces, and radical thinkers that defined Weimar’s electric nightlife became targets of censorship, persecution, and violence. Books were burned, bodies were policed, and an era that celebrated pleasure and possibility was crushed under a regime obsessed with control.
At the Erotic Heritage Museum, this gallery does not end with the glow of Weimar—it leads you into the shadows of what came next. Sometimes, the most provocative history is not only the moment when everything blooms, but the moment when it is brutally forced to stop.
Global Art
Art has explored intimacy, fertility, love, spirituality, and the human body throughout every civilization. This gallery highlights remarkable works spanning continents and centuries, revealing how cultures around the world have expressed sexuality through creativity and craftsmanship.
One Universal Language
Although traditions differ across cultures, artistic representations of love, desire, fertility, partnership, and the human experience appear throughout history. This exhibition brings together diverse perspectives that demonstrate sexuality has always been an important part of artistic expression.
Featuring works inspired by civilizations from around the globe, the collection encourages visitors to appreciate both the differences and remarkable similarities that unite cultures through art.
Ancient Cultures
Explore artistic traditions reflecting spirituality, mythology, fertility, and human relationships across early civilizations.
Global Perspectives
Discover how different societies have interpreted intimacy and beauty through sculpture, painting, symbolism, and storytelling.
Cultural History
Each work provides historical insight into the beliefs, customs, and values that shaped generations of artistic expression.
Shared Humanity
Despite cultural differences, the themes represented throughout the exhibition remain universally recognizable across time and geography.
Across every civilization, art has documented what it means to be human. The Global Art Gallery celebrates those shared stories through extraordinary works collected from around the world.
The Whittington Library
Home to one of the museum's most important scholarly collections, the Whittington Library preserves rare books, journals, photographs, manuscripts, and historical documents that explore the history of sexuality through education, research, and cultural preservation.
Preserving History Through Knowledge
The Whittington Library serves as an educational resource dedicated to documenting the history of human sexuality through carefully preserved publications and archival materials. Scholars, educators, students, and curious visitors alike can explore an extraordinary collection spanning generations of research and cultural history.
By safeguarding these rare materials, the museum ensures that important conversations surrounding sexuality, identity, medicine, education, and society remain accessible for future generations.
Every collection begins with curiosity. Every archive preserves a story. The Whittington Library exists to ensure those stories are never forgotten.
Meet Benny
Not every museum experience has to be serious. Meet Benny is one of the Erotic Heritage Museum's most recognizable and entertaining interactive exhibits, inviting visitors to learn, laugh, and engage with human anatomy in an approachable and memorable way.
Education Meets Entertainment
Designed to make learning approachable for adult audiences, Meet Benny combines humor with education to create an unforgettable museum experience. It's one of the exhibits guests talk about long after their visit and perfectly reflects the museum's mission of making conversations about sexuality engaging, informative, and accessible.
Whether you're visiting for the art, the history, or simply out of curiosity, Benny offers a lighthearted moment that reminds visitors learning can be both educational and fun.
Interactive Experience
A hands-on exhibit designed to encourage curiosity and participation throughout your museum visit.
Educational
Learn about anatomy and human sexuality through an engaging exhibit created to inform while entertaining.
Guest Favorite
One of the museum's most photographed and talked-about attractions for first-time visitors.
Fun For Adults
An unforgettable experience that balances humor, learning, and the museum's unique personality.
From groundbreaking art and rare historical collections to unforgettable interactive experiences, every gallery at the Erotic Heritage Museum offers a different way to explore the history, culture, science, and creativity of human sexuality.
See the Collection in Person
The galleries are only the beginning. Plan your visit to the Erotic Heritage Museum and explore extraordinary art, rare historical collections, immersive exhibits, and unforgettable experiences in the heart of Las Vegas.