Virginia City, Nevada - Julia Bulette Red Light Museum

Address:
5 N. C St., Virginia City, NV [Show Map]
Directions:
Mandarin Garden Chinese. In the heart of downtown, on Hwy 341/Main St./C St, In the Mandarin Garden Chinese restaurant.
Phone:
775-847-9288
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Virginia City, Nevada - 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]

Virginia City, Nevada - Red Light Museum of Prostitution

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]

Virginia City, Nevada - Museum of Prostitution

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]

Virginia City, Nevada - Museum of Prostitution

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.]

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