Museum opens nudist exhibit — for visitors who also go full-frontal: ‘It’s not so strange’

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They went from oui oui to wee-wee.

A gorgeous coastal city in France is baring all with a museum exhibit on nudity — which guests can view in the buff themselves, according to The Guardian.

A museum in Marseille, France has opened a nudity exhibit that can be viewed naked. AFP via Getty Images

The exposition was “only natural” to flash full-frontal guests at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations Marseille, the organization announced.

Its recent unveiling, which costs brave visitors just $12 and change, saw 80-some visitors put themselves on full display in the curtain-covered room.

“Anyone wanting to visit fully dressed during those hours might be considered a little odd,” a museum spokesperson cheekily said.

Shoes are required in the museum for safety’s sake. AFP via Getty Images

“In recent years, a new craze for nudity in nature has arisen … Today, France is the world’s leading tourist destination for naturists: its temperate climate and three seas have facilitated the establishment of real communities,” the museum website reads.

One of France’s most famous nude beach towns — Cagnes-sur-Mer, located between Cannes and Nice — was hilariously poked fun at for perverts trying to glimpse naked women in the 2004 slapstick comedy “Eurotrip.”

Now, the centuries-long culture of nudity — or naturism, as it’s called — is on display via 600 photos, videos and “everyday objects” within the “Naturist Paradises” exhibitionist exhibit.

Folks in France can gander at paintings in the nude at the French museum. AFP via Getty Images

Only shoes are required — simply as a way to “avoid getting splinters,” Eric Stefanut, of France’s FFN naturist organization, told The Guardian.

One UK visitor who stripped down, 28-year-old Kieren Parker-Hall, told the Guardian that checking out the show was a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

He especially appreciated that the stigma around nudity was much less in France than across the channel.

“Being naked in England is seen as something a bit bizarre, shameful,” he said, before seemingly referencing his home country’s less-than-inviting climate. “It’s cold.”

Many found the nude exhibit liberating. AFP via Getty Images

Another museum-goer, Julie Guegnolle, 38, fancied a stroll around the exhibit on her birthday — and in her birthday suit.

“It’s not every day you get to walk around a museum naked,” she told France24. “When we arrived, we felt a bit lost, but it’s not so strange.”

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