Icelandic Phallological Museum

The Icelandic Phallological Museum inwards Reykjavík is the world’s alone museum devoted to the manful somebody genitalia. It contains over 280 specimens representing 93 dissimilar species of province together with bounding main animals , including humans , together with it was all collected past times i person.

It started every bit a joke. In 1974 , Sigurður Hjartarson was a 33-year one-time headmaster inwards a secondary schoolhouse when a colleague gifted him the penis of a bull later hearing how Hjartarson had i every bit a boy. Soon , other teachers who worked inwards a nearby whaling station started bringing him whale penises , only to tease him. Eventually it gave him an sentiment that it mightiness live on interesting to collect specimens from to a greater extent than mammalian species.

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Photo credit: Jennifer Boyer/Flickr

In the outset , collecting these organs progressed like shooting fish in a barrel together with past times 1980 he had alone thirteen specimens , 4 from whales together with ix from province mammals. The organs came from farm animals from slaughterhouses , spell fishermen supplied him alongside those of whales together with other bounding main animals. When a ban on commercial whaling was imposed inwards 1986 , Hjartarson began harvesting whale penises from victims stranded on the coast. Once a polar behaviour came drifting on an H2O ice floe. The fishermen shot the behaviour together with gifted him the penis of the animal.

Sometimes he would mail his trouble solid unit of measurement to collect for him , leading to some embarrassing situations , peculiarly when his immature lady is involved. On i occasion she was dispatched to a butchery where i of the workers asked , “What’s inwards the basket?” , to which she had to respond , “I’m collecting a frozen caprine animal penis.” After that she said to her manful somebody bring upwardly , “I volition never collect for y'all again.”

In 1990 , his collection grew to 34 specimens together with when the museum opened inwards Reykjavík inwards August 1997 , he had 62. Once the museum opened , the numbers grew phenomenally. Now they incorporate over 280 specimens from 93 species of animals constitute or together with thus Iceland. Its largest present is the “tip” of a bluish whale's penis touchstone 170 cm long together with weighing seventy kilograms , spell the smallest is 2mm long baculum of a hamster that needs a magnifying drinking glass to see.

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Sigurður Hjartarson , founder of the Icelandic Phallological Museum. Photo credit: www.phallus.is

The highlight of the museum is a human specimen obtained from a native Icelander together with self-proclaimed womanizer who has allegedly pleasured to a greater extent than than 300 women. It’s non an attractive specimen. The human being was 95 years one-time when he died together with his organ had already shrunk. Then the surgical procedure didn’t become good together with the specimen wasn’t properly sewn up. Hjartarson is at i time looking for ameliorate specimens together with contemplates on donating his own. He has at to the lowest degree 3 to a greater extent than pledges from donors. One American donor wanted to accept his cutting off during his lifetime , but thankfully , didn’t.

The museum has enough of penis-themed artwork together with objects such every bit lampshades made from the scrotums of bulls , a walking stick made from a bull’s penis , carved wooden phalluses together with a collection of silver-coated sculptures of penises representing the 2008 argent medal-winning Icelandic Olympic handball team. There was some speculation whether the sculptures are casts but the team's goalkeeper denies it.

The museum is a pop tourist attraction of Reykjavík together with is visited past times thousands each year. It is at i time managed past times Hjartarson’s boy Hjörtur Gísli Sigurðsson.

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