Opening Hours & Admission

 

The museum is open Wednesday to Sunday, 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Please note that we accept cash payments only.

 

 
 

Admission Prices

 
 

Adults € 10,-

Stiff pessary made of 10-karat gold. A precursor to modern IUDs: a solid or perforated gold button approximately 20 mm in diameter, with a gold rod approximately 60 mm long extending from its center and branching into a “Y” shape.

 

Students and apprentices € 8,-

“My legally protected condom taken off.” The two features “high elasticity” and “legal protection” were intended to demonstrate the condom’s safety. In the past, condoms were so unreliable that two had to be worn at the same time. 

 

Vorteilsclub Wien Card € 6,-

Soap produces a strong alkaline solution which, because of its tissue-destroying properties, was injected into the uterus to induce an abortion. This procedure also caused injury to the woman.
Because abortions induced with soap were so common, the confiscated bottle was added as an educational object to the training and continuing education collection of the Eutin Police Directorate (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany). It bears a label reading “Abortion remedy.”

 

School Students € 4,-

(Male) frogs served as highly reliable “pregnancy tests” in the 1940s and 1950s. As soon as a woman became pregnant, the pregnancy hormone could be detected in her urine—either using biochemical test strips, as is common today, or through a physiological reaction in animals. A few drops of the woman’s urine were injected under the frog’s skin. If the animal produced sperm within a few hours, this was considered proof of pregnancy. The test was highly reliable and therefore widely used until it was replaced by modern methods in the 1960s. 

 

Guided Tours & Workshops

 
Guided Tours and Workshops are available Monday to Sunday exclusively outside regular museum opening hours (see Timetable) and can be booked by email at fuehrungen@muvs.org.