The World Erotic Art Museum

At The World Erotic Art Museum in sunny Miami Beach, you are invited to travel through time and discover artistic treasures depicting the evolution of erotica through the biblical era, Greek and Roman mythology, antiquities from Asia, China, Japan, India and Africa. These works of art illustrate the cultures and time frames in which they were created.

Patrons are first greeted in a foyer dominated by the legendary “Fountain of Diana, The Huntress.” They then proceed through a series of fiber optic-lit cubicles displaying Naomi Wilzig’s extraordinary mix of paintings, sculptures, and tapestries where the intriguing perspective of erotic art is historically drawn from the early days of the Roman Empire to the contemporary world of such memorable art sculptures as the famous male prop made famous in Stanley Kubrick’s controversial 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.

The plans of Naomi Wilzig to take her personal collection of erotic art to a public forum were fully realized with the opening of this shrine to human sexuality as portrayed throughout the centuries. Wilzig’s collection, valued at some $10 million, has now attained serious consideration throughout the world for its historic as well as its artistic value.

It took 14 years of travels throughout the U.S. and Europe in order to amass a collection of approximately 4,000 pieces, considered to be the greatest collection of fine erotic art in the United States, including centuries-old oil paintings, water colors, rare sculptures and statues cast in bronze which demand to be seen. As such, The World Erotic Art Museum contains a research library of over 250 volumes on erotic art purchased by Wilzig.

Wilzig notes that three common themes reproduced throughout the centuries are Adam and Eve, Leda and the Swan (a Greek myth of adultery and seduction) and various representations of Satyrs and Nymphs. Into the world of contemporary art, the museum is home to countless works discovered through Wilzig’s travels throughout Europe and the United States illustrating responses of the most pressing controversial political and sociological issues that, through recent decades, have colored the world we live in.

A grandmother whose three children heartily endorse her passion, Wilzig is the widow of the late Siggi Wilzig, the CEO and President of The Trust Company of New Jersey who gained international prominence as a founder of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and as the first Holocaust survivor to lecture cadets at West Point.