COPENHAGEN, DENMARK — Copenhagen’s Museum Erotica may be forced to close due to loss of funding.Museum Erotica is considering selling its collection of more than 1,500 erotic artifacts after the city council decided not to include the museum in its budget. At the same time, a group of private investors backed out of a pending deal to fund part of an ongoing renovation project museum directors hoped to complete before Museum Erotica’s 15th anniversary celebration later this year.

“We’ve been hopeful [of securing investors] for a long time and miracles can happen, but if we don’t get the funding, we will have to close,” Hanne Stensgaard, the museum’s chief executive, told the Copenhagen Post.

“We think it’s very important that people know about sexual and erotic history, as it defines many gender roles today,” he added.

The country legalized pornography in 1968, so the museum’s collection also serves as a record of the country’s liberal attitude, Stensgaard noted.