Needed even more reasons to visit Sin City outside of gambling and the Cirque du Soleil? Look no further than what’s brewing over at the Erotic Heritage Museum and its recent extension of the Royo Exhibition.

Nearly a year after its debut, the sexual awareness exhibit will welcome a Royo Gallery next month slated for big celebrations.

The exhibit of artist Luis Royo and his son Romulo, featuring the soundtrack of Mitchel Johnson’s “Murder of Fireflies,” is moving to a new space in Harry Mohney’s Erotic Heritage Museum. The semi-permanent exhibition, having debut August 2023, will as much see an extended run at Las Vegas’ venerable sex-positive space and undergoes an update across its entire installation.  

The exhibit will occupy the 500 sq ft. ‘Royo Gallery’ space in the EHM, featuring state-of-the-art sound and visuals, and a new seating arrangement, providing a completely immerse 36o degree sound and sound experience. Mitchel Johnson is adding new music to the updated exhibition as well.

Luis Royo was born in 1954 in Olalla, Teruel, Spain, and started to exhibit his paintings in 1972. By 1980, he was publishing his comics in magazines like “Rambla,” and “Heavy Metal,” progressing to publishing his fantasy-based artwork internationally, as well as creating book covers for publishers like Tor Book, Berkley Books, and iconic video game covers “Turbo Girl,” and “Navy Moves.”

His son Romolo is a celebrated artist in his own right.

“The EHM is incredibly honored to extend the Luis and Romulo installation and dedicate its own gallery to these talented artists,” says EHM director Dr. Victoria Hartmann. “There are few in the art world who rival the grand and beautiful works of these two masters. Additionally, the exhibit will be enriched with the sensual and ethereal music from Mitchel Johnson's Murder of Fireflies Electronica Project, for which Mitchel is composing two new scores. It's a perfect marriage of sound and visuals and are indeed lucky to have all three become a bigger part of our Erotic Heritage.”

The new Royo Gallery space will be open to the public on 8/31/2024, coinciding with a Labor Day Weekend celebration at the museum that will feature a mélange of light, sounds, energy and art.

“A bunch of bands are coming in for the weekend, plus we will have other artists on hand to add a full high-end assault on the senses,” Hartmann adds. “More than that I won’t say; I don’t want to spoil the surprise.”

ABOUT THE EROTIC HERITAGE MUSEUM

The Erotic Heritage Museum houses more than 24,000 square feet of permanent and featured exhibits, championing the wonders of erotic imagination as depicted through artistic expressions of sex and love. With so much global erotic heritage undervalued, criticized, or even lost over time, the EHM is dedicated to the preservation of as much erotic heritage as is possible to display. Scouring the world for its exhibitions, The Harry Mohney Erotic Museum furthers its purpose by providing space for scientific and literary functions relating to sexual, emotional, mental, and physical health. As such, the EHM is as much an assemblage of some of the most important sexual artifacts, tableau, and interactive exhibitions in the world as it is a one-of-a-kind lecture and classroom space. In addition to the Museum space, the EHM's main theatre is home to the highly popular live show, "Puppetry of the Penis,” as well as film festivals, burlesque shows, and more.

The Erotic Heritage Museum is located at 3275 Sammy Davis Jr Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89109. Call (702) 794-4000 or go to  Erotic Heritage Museum (eroticmuseumvegas.com) for more information.