Standing proudly on the corner of the seediest looking block in Berlin is the Beate Uhse Erotic Museum. Small sections of the museum are dedicated to the artist Heinrich Zille and the sexual scientist Magnus Hirschfeld but are under-sized, presumably to make way for the chastity belts and large models of penises. Yes, Beate Uhse gets her own shrine informing us about all we ever wanted to know about her extremely privileged life including everything from documents of her Luftwaffe days to pictures of her at the helm of a large speedboat. All in all, one gets the impression that the museum was put in place only to justify a visit to the video cabins and sex superstore on the lower floors which are, to reinforce an old stereotype which the exhibition had attempted to destroy, full of middle-aged men in raincoats. The recent addition of an American Indian exhibit to the Ethnological Museum's rather dusty collection has been the subject of international attention.
Explanations are in English and German.
In some sections English information sheets are available for DM0.10, in others sections explanations for non-German speakers have to come from the imagination. Situated in the former royal stables, excellent museum documenting the history of German Cinema. Good cinema too, and cafe.