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| - This is my first review on Yelp so please be kind! I feel very strongly about this museum and want it to do well which is why, for the first time in the year I have been a member of Yelp, I am choosing to write a review.
Before I get started, just a little bit of info about the museum. The museum is tucked away in a corner of the Emergency Arts Collective in Las Vegas. If you go through the front door of the collective, it is immediately on your left. Looks can be deceiving as it is right next to a restaurant/bar and you wont see it until you walk through the front doors.
Now for a little Burlesque 101. This is not the striptease you know that is so prevalent and popular in Las Vegas entertainment. Burlesque/Striptease is considered an art form. If you walk into a majority of the stripclubs in Las Vegas, you will find strippers, not dancers performing striptease. This is nothing against strippers. Striptease artist tend to spend more time on costume, music and performance than they do gyrating to the music. The goal of the dance is different between strippers and striptease artists. It seems like a semantical argument but its important. If you go to the museum expecting to find exhibits on the type of stripping you find in clubs and bars, you will be disappointed.
Now onto the review. The museum is very small. About the size of a nice hotel room. But boy do they use the space! The walls are COVERED with photos and artifacts. The museum suffers from too much material and not enough space. Right now, the walls are covered with photos and archives of the Ms. Exotic World Competition they host every year. I spoke to the woman and she said that in May they would have a more historical exhibit up dealing with the history of striptease. Also, if you're lucky enough, you may find the legendary Dixie Evans in the museum and ready to chat you up. Dixie took over the museum and moved it Las Vegas.
The reason for the immense amount of material is that the woman who started the museum in its earliest incarnation was a legendary striptease artist named Jennie Lee. "The Bazoom Girl" as she was known, started the museum in Helendale, CA, but it was later moved to Las Vegas because Helendale was a little out of the way for most travelers. While the Helendale museum had about 40 acres, the museum now, as I mentioned, is very small. Jennie Lee, btw, was legendary in the burlesque world and I hope that the future exhibits show just how awesome she was. If you wanna know more about her, feel free to ask the people who are running the museum. They are very knowledgeable.
Which is where this review comes in. If you're a Burlesque fan and you wanna help, go visit the museum and donate! The museum is FREE. If not, ask more information about the Exotic World Competition and how to watch/join it. Buy some postcards, buy a t-shirt, do whatever you can to support this organization and get it the space it needs to expand.
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