Sexmuseum Amsterdam Sexmuseum Amsterdam The Sexmuseum or the Temple of Venus (Dutch: "Venustempel") is a sex museum located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The museum opened in 1985. It had 675,000 visitors in 2015, making it one of the most visited museums in the Netherlands. The museum features an extensive collection of pictures, recordings, photos, paintings and artifacts which allow visitors to explore the evolution of human sexuality throughout the ages. Visitors learn about the history of sex and how it has evolved over the centuries. Visitors may be surprised to learn just how open and free historical civilizations were. From Cleopatra’s regiment of
The Feast of Venus (Rubens) The Feast of Venus (Rubens) The Feast of Venus is a painting by Flemish painter Rubens, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is a fanciful depiction of the Roman festival Veneralia celebrated in honor of Venus Verticordia. Rubens thought highly of Titian and made a copy of the Venetian master's "The Worship of Venus" which remained in Rubens' private collection until his death. Titian's work, in turn, was based on the "Imagines" of the sophist Philostratus of Lemnos. The "Imagines" consisted of a series of descriptions of ancient paintings presumably decorating a third-century villa near Naples. In the