Welcome

Welcome to have a peep in my little museum! The collection here is quite extraordinary. Every single piece has to be connected with, or depicting bestiality, the behaviour of humans having sex with other species. Next to heterosexual behaviour, and homosexual behaviour, there is a third orientation: zoosexual behaviour. Since prehistoric times these all have been subject of exploring artists, ignoring taboos as far as there were any.

It is certainly not so that all cultures nurtured the taboo on bestiality, like the modern western culture in many places still does, mainly because of the influence of the Christian faith. Nor do all cultures place the same weight and meaning in what you may think of, at first glance, as identical. - Please do not assume any male person walking closely hand in hand with another male in Saoudi Arabia must be gay, or you might find yourself in serious trouble there very quickly! - They're probably just good friends, while there is a strong taboo effective on being gay.... Only an example to show that perceptions are by far not always true, or at least often misguiding.

A New Introduction - 2007

Let's start off with an apology: "Sorry, but the (free) webaddress "http://home.wanadoo.nl/mh/museum" recently just ceased to be available because of provider reorganisations". For technical reason the "mh" in it was no longer possible. There is no reason whatsoever to think that censorship was involved.
Anyhow, the site wasn't been looked after for years (last update in 2000...), escaped my interests and needed a technical update badly as lots of daily unique hits (visitors) kept coming. Well, this is a right moment to do it, and also the right moment to give it a proper URL of its own: http://www.bestialartmuseum.com. Technically the site is constructed even simpler, because the goal is efficiency! This is supposed to be a museum after all.

The Museum of Bestial Art started off in 1996, simply as an online backup of data I found during research for my own interests in art at the time. Eventually, in fact quite soon because the stats proved this was interesting for lots of people, this listing evolved into the form of the "Museum".

As you will see the setup of this museum is in parallel order, not necessarily to be viewed serialwise. The ten main exhibition rooms all have multiple links to the archive. Use the MAP!!!
It is also very much an interactive museum; the contents of the exhibitions going on are not meant to tell you the truth and nothing but the truth, but rather to make you think for yourself... but don't allow that to spoil the fun!

COPYRIGHTS NOTICE: If you think and object to, for whatever reason, your copyrights violated, please inform the Museum of Bestial Art with the complete argumentation. If correct immediate action (removal) will be the result! As most illustrations came through the internet, it is impossible to trace them in order to ask permission to use - for this non-commercial purpose only of course. Addended knowlegde from www.wikipedia.com: The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain worldwide due to the date of death of its author (if it was published outside of the U.S. and the author has been dead for over 70 years), or due to its date of publication (if it was first made public in the U.S. before 1923). Therefore this photographical reproduction is also in the public domain, at least in the United States (see Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.), in Germany, and in many other countries.