Coastal Defence Museum says: ‘Our guests are kindly requested… how can we put it… no ars amandi [the art of love] in the museum, please!’

An appeal has been made by a military museum in Poland to ‘lusty’ tourists to cease having sex there.

The Fort Gerhard museum in the coastal town of Winoujcie, which was once a Prussian fortification, said that after installing new security cameras, they had seen multiple “amorous guests” in the act.

The Coastal Defence Museum posted the following on its social media pages: “Our guests are warmly requested… What else can we say? Please don’t display ars amandi (the art of love) in the museum.

The message continued, “We beg our amorous visitors to be understanding because most of the artefacts in our museum are from a long time ago and used to completely different moral norms—conservative, even orthodox and abstinent.”

“Let’s not put them through pain!”

According to the museum’s website, its collections span “the reign of Frederick the Great through the conclusion of the Cold War.”

Piotr Piwowarczyk, the director of the museum, told the local newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza that the institution had already received three recordings of couples having trysts in less than a month.

Visitors to the fort come in all different temperaments, some of them are very traditional.

“We don’t want them to be astonished during their vacation by running into a couple engaging in lusty antics,” the organisation said.

The rumpy-pumpy seekers might be drawn to the museum’s “dark corners,” he continued, without realising that they are being watched.

The museum advised visitors who are unable to control their behaviour to go to one of the nearby beaches instead.

Sex in public is prohibited in Poland, and anyone found engaging in indecent behaviour face incarceration, a non-custodial term, or a fine of 1,500 zloty (about $250).