No sex please, we’re a Polish military museum: Historical institution is makes bizarre request

A military museum in Poland has appealed for ‘lusty’ visitors to stop having sex at the historic site.

Part of a former 19th-century Prussian fortress, the Fort Gerhard museum in the coastal town of Świnoujście said that after installing new security cameras they had spotted numerous ‘amorous guests’ in the act.

Writing on its social media page, the Coastal Defence Museum said: ‘Our guests are kindly requested… how can we put it… no ars amandi [the art of love] in the museum, please!’

A military museum in Poland has appealed for ‘lusty’ visitors to stop having sex

Fort Gerhard museum in Świnoujście is part of a 19th-century Prussian fortress

After installing CCTV the museum team spotted numerous ‘amorous guests’ in the act

The post added: ‘We ask our amorous guests to be understanding – most of the exhibits in our museum are from many years ago and accustomed to entirely different moral norms – conservative, even orthodox and abstemious.

‘Let’s not expose them to discomfort!’

The museum’s website says its exhibits range from ‘the times of Frederick the Great to the end of the Cold War’.

They said: ‘We ask our amorous guests to be understanding – most of the exhibits in our museum are from many years ago and accustomed to entirely different moral norms – conservative, even orthodox and abstemious. Let’s not expose them to discomfort!’

The museum’s website says its exhibits range from ‘the times of Frederick the Great to the end of the Cold War’

Museum director Piotr Piwowarczyk told local newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza: ‘In less than a month we have already had three recordings of lovers engaged in trysts’

‘Visitors to the fort have various temperaments, some of them very conservative. We don’t want them to be shocked during their visit by stumbling across a couple engaged in lustful antics’

Museum director Piotr Piwowarczyk told local newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza: ‘In less than a month we have already had three recordings of lovers engaged in trysts.

‘Visitors to the fort have various temperaments, some of them very conservative.

‘We don’t want them to be shocked during their visit by stumbling across a couple engaged in lustful antics.’

He added that the rumpy-pumpy seekers may be attracted by the museum’s ‘dark corners’ without realising they are being watched

The museum said that visitors who are unable to control themselves should instead head to one of the local beaches

Sex in public is illegal in Poland and those caught in lewd conduct face either detention, a non-custodial sentence or a fine of 1,500 zloty (around £250)

He added that the rumpy-pumpy seekers may be attracted by the museum’s ‘dark corners’ without realising they are being watched.

The museum said that visitors who are unable to control themselves should instead head to one of the local beaches.

According to Polish law, sex in public is illegal and those caught in lewd conduct face either detention, a non-custodial sentence or a fine of 1,500 zloty (around £250).