Hasta La Ideas

While all museum closing news is sad, and lord knows we’ve had enough of it to fill a few decades already in just these past couple of months, sometimes you receive a piece of information that you know must be a signal of how truly bad things are. Today, that signal came from the news that the Museum Erotica in Copenhagen has run out of money, largely due to an investment deal gone bad, and is now facing bankruptcy and closure (they officially closed their doors last Sunday, but have hopes of returning to open their doors again, should all of this somehow blow over). So let’s see: you can’t make people invest in and come visit museums about sports, which is incredible enough, and now things have gotten so awful that nationally-celebrated museums about sex are failing? Folks, we’re past the Chicken Little phase and we don’t mind telling you that the end is nigh. Though on the plus side, if the museum does go under, the auction will certainly be far more entertaining than most. Here’s a bit:

The City Council’s cultural committee has turned down a request to support the museum and the museum’s chief executive, Hanne Stensgaard, said the museum is facing the sale of its extensive collection.

Stensgaard told The Copenhagen Post that they are currently in the process of rebuilding the museum but are approximately two to three million kroner short due to a lack of investors.

‘We’ve been hopeful [of securing investors] for a long time and miracles can happen, but if we don’t get the funding within a week, we will have to close.’

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