The Icelandic Phallological Museum is the world's only museum dedicated entirely to penises — a genuinely academic natural-history collection of over 400 penises and penile parts from 100 different mammalian species, including whales, walruses, seals, Arctic foxes, and domestic animals, along with a human specimen donated by a 95-year-old Icelandic farmer. The museum was founded by retired teacher Sigurður Hjartarson in 1997 in rural Iceland and moved to Reykjavik in 2011.
The museum is serious, scientific, and only occasionally winking — specimens are preserved in formaldehyde or as dried display pieces, and the educational labels treat the subject with the same respectful detail that a natural history museum would bring to any other organ. The Hollywood-themed gift shop and penis-shaped souvenirs provide the comic counterweight to the scholarly tone inside.
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The museum has over 400 penises from 100+ species
It was founded in 1997 by Sigurður Hjartarson
The museum moved to Reykjavik in 2011
The human specimen was donated by a 95-year-old farmer
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Kalkofnsvegur, Skuggahverfi, Reykjavík, 101, Iceland
