Daniel Gluck

Daniel Gluck is the founder and executive director of the Museum of Sex in New York City.1 Here are some key details about him:

• He founded the Museum of Sex in 2002 and has been serving as its executive director since then.1

• Gluck has a combined degree in Fine Arts from the Wharton School and the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, which he obtained in the early 1990s.2

• Before founding the Museum of Sex, Gluck had started a few software companies in the 1990s.2

• His vision for the Museum of Sex was to create a world-class institution that would examine sex from an anthropological and cultural perspective, rather than just being an erotic art museum.3

• Gluck structured the Museum of Sex as a for-profit Limited Liability Corporation (LLC), partly due to challenges in obtaining nonprofit status for a museum with "sex" in its name.4

• He has lived in various parts of New York, including Queens, Long Island, Westchester, Manhattan and Brooklyn. As of 2015, he was living in Tribeca with his wife and three children.3

• Gluck's goal with the Museum of Sex is to advocate for open discourse about sex and sexuality, and to present current scholarship on these topics to a wide audience.4

Daniel Gluck has been instrumental in establishing and growing the Museum of Sex as a unique cultural institution in New York City over the past two decades.