Poland’s first erotic museum in the heart of Warsaw is to open its doors to the public, Tuesday.

“It is in a business district, we are not going to disturb anyone,” the museum’s owner Dariusz Kedziora told Gazeta Wyborcza, commenting on the museum’s location on Grzybowska street, adding that “we don’t have any rooms for rent by the hour.”

The museum is the private initiative of Kedziora, who has spent the past 20 years collecting erotic items during his travels, as well as looking for other ‘exhibits’ on the internet.

“There’s nothing to ashamed of here. It will be a museum much like the ones found in Paris or Barcelona,” Kedziora says, underling that the museum will concentrate on “erotic art, [there won’t be any] pornography.”

Among the 2,000 exhibits is a Polish condom vending machine dating from 1934, the only one of its kind to have survived throughout the years. The 450-square-metre museum also includes Peruvian ceramics, Persian miniatures, as well as Japanese shunga prints.

Entry to the museum is for adults only and costs 30 zloty (around 8 euro), with reduced tickets for students and the over-70s. The museum’s website can be found here. (jb)