Kitty's Corner

A last-minute back-out by potential investors has left the Museum Erotica in Copenhagen facing bankruptcy.

The City Council’s cultural committee has turned down a request to support the museum and the museum’s chief executive said the museum is facing the sale of its extensive collection. The museum is currently in the process of rebuilding the museum but are approximately two to three million kroner short due to a lack of investors. If they don’t get the funding within a week, they will have to close.

The museum is home to more than 1,500 artefacts and pictures depicting erotica through the ages. If the museum is declared bankrupt then the collection will have to be sold off.

The museum plays host to dedicated exhibitions chronicling the life and times of Playboy magazine and Marilyn Monroe among others. A dress worn by the American actress is also displayed.

The museum had been planning a number of celebrations this year, which now look to be in serious jeopardy. This year will mark the 15th anniversary since the museum opened its premises on Købmagergade street in central Copenhagen. 2009 also marks the 40th anniversary of the legalisation of pornography in Denmark.


I have actually been to this museum once, and I didn't find it very interesting. What I remember the most was a closed room, where there was warning signs outside, saying "Hardcore, enter at own risk", without stating what exactly you could expect to find in there. It turned out to be various porn films running on a large number of tv screens, mostly a girl having sexual intercourse with a horse.

Of course it's sad when a museum have to close down after 15 years, but I don't think it's a museum you visit more than once anyway.

I am sorry for cursing in the title, but I have some news about Facebook:


34 percent of the Danish population have placed a profile on Facebook compared to 33 percent in for instance Canada. At the beginning of December, Denmark's number was 30 percent.

According to a survey which helps companies profile themselves on Facebook, the number of Danes on Facebook grew by 268 percent in 2008 alone.

The report says that an unusually large number of Danish middle-aged and senior citizens use Facebook compared with other countries.

Looking at the average age in other popular Facebook countries shows that Denmark is probably the country in the world with the highest average age - and this is one of the factors that has made Denmark the biggest Facebook country in the world, the report says.


I think I'll just stay here on MyOpera. Facebook doesn't really appeal to me.

Down goes the needle, click goes the speaker, a soft whoosh of silence and the music begins. Until the advent of the CD, such was the sound that met music-lovers as they placed favourite vinyl records.

And it is a sound that is increasingly returning to Denmark as the LP slowly makes its comeback to the shelves of music shops. In 2008, sales of LPs went up 63 % compared with 2007 - and the industry believes sales will continue to rise.

The phenomenon is the result of various factors, but one of them is a feeling that CDs have just lost out. The price is another factor. Some people find it difficult to pay 150 kroner (20 Eur) for a CD, when they can burn one at home.

In 2008 some 20 % of Danish music production from Sony Music was on vinyl records, while Playground Music reached a full 40 %.

At the same time hardware outlets such as Lydbutikken in Copenhagen report increased player sales. They hardly sell any CD-players any more - on the other hand they sell some 7-8 record players each week.
Lydbutikken's owner says that in the near future, music lovers will use downloads and streaming when they want easy access - and buy LPs when they want quality. He adds that in the quality race - analogue beats digital.

An unidentified thief broke into a villa in the north Zealand town of Kalundborg last week, killing one of the family’s beloved pets in the process.

The thief found a hidden house key and let himself into the empty property, stealing a television, laptop and three mobile phones.

But the thief didn’t stop at that and the family came home to a horrific sight the next morning.

The thief sickeningly killed a hamster with a knife and wounded another, which later had to be put down. Poor little fellas.

After decades of traveling the world in search of adventure with his faithful dog Snowy by his side, the Belgian cartoon character Tintin celebrated his 80th birthday on Saturday. Somewhere in a Copenhagen nursing home, the Danish inspiration for the character smiled with glee.

‘It sounds fun to be the cause of it, doesn’t it? It’s an enormous pleasure,’ Palle Huld says.

The 96-year-old former actor confirmed that Tintin’s creator, Georges Remi, better known by pen-name Hergé, was inspired by a trip undertaken by the Dane when he was just a teenager.

Huld was just 15 years old when he won a newspaper competition to take a trip around the world, marking the centenary of Jules Verne. The adventure, dubbed ‘Around the world in 44 days’, attracted much attention from international media and caught the eye of the Belgian cartoonist.

On his return, he was welcomed by a huge crowd at Copenhagen railway station, just like Tintin in his first adventure, but the Dane admits he has trouble remembering much of his earlier travels.

The first comic strip adventures of Tintin were published in Belgian newspaper Le Vingtieme Siecle in 1929 and went on to sell more than 200 million books featuring the mystery-solving teenager reporter.