Virginia City, Nevada - Julia Bulette Red Light Museum

Not worth the visit now. The museum, or whats left of it is located in the Mandarin Chinese Eatery. Actually, the Chinese food is pretty good. A lot of the prostitution related items have been removed, and instead you have old medical instruments and opium bottles. The town is worth the visit, I stay there many times myself, but not the museum. [Paul Curtis, 12/15/2004]

The thing that struck me about the "Red Light Museum" of prostitution was a scene made of department store dummies, in which the tour-ee has the perspective of peeping through a late 1800's window into a back alley abortion. There was also a case of eyeball prosthetics which I didn't really understand... Maybe there were a lot of one eyed hookers back then?

By the way, before we went into the museum, which is the basement of a little dive of a tavern the bartender ominously warned in a low drawl... "be careful, its haunted." [Peg Clydesdale, 03/06/2004]

We visited the "Museum of Prostitution" in Virgina City, which is actually called the Julia C. Bulette Red Light Museum, (775) 847-9991. It's very much worth the drive, although the drive from Reno to the City is a little bit scary (uphill, windy roads). Not only does the Museum have various ancient sex toys (such as a vibrator that looks like a hand mixer from Sears and Roebuck), it also displays old surgical tools and poisonous arrows. The "Bucket of Blood Saloon" also makes the trip worthwhile. A pleasant and highly interesting addition is the Cemetery in Virginia City. [Cheryl Hoffman, 08/21/2000]

I have been there twice. There are dioramas and artifacts of prostitution in the Old West, including a lipstick tube condom case. [Kay Schaney, 09/21/1997]

[RA: And don't forget that elephant penis walking stick.]