Video: Icelandic Phallological Museum: the world's largest collection of phalluses of animals, humans, elves and trolls
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The idea to collect and exhibit animal genitals - rather strange, but nevertheless, it occurs to many enthusiasts. Sigurdur Yartarson, the founder of Icelandic Phallological Museum - the collection of animal genitals, which he started, has become the largest collection of phalluses of natural and cultural origin in the world. And, paradoxically, this museum cannot be called shitty!
Some stories begin with an apple, others with a hole, and the history of the founding of the Phallological Museum in Husavik begins with bull dick … This artifact belonged to history and Spanish teacher Sigurdur Yartarson since childhood, but was lost. Once Sigurdur told his friends about this, and one of them immediately showered him with a generous hand four more similar exhibits. This is how it all began. Familiar whalers brought monumental members of whales and narwhals to Yartarson (of course, until they shut down the fishery in 1986), the seal hunters also didn’t skimp on shitty gifts, and breeders replenished the collection with members of pets.
In 1997 the collection became a museum. It has accumulated 276 animal members, and also a "folklore section" made of wood and stone: ancient phallic symbols, carved ouds of characters of folk demonology (trolls, pixies, elves, "the nasty ghost of Snefell"), and so on. Nearby - animal members in formaldehyde … All kinds of genitals are missing here: an elephant, a seal, a fox, a mink, a rat, a reindeer … Of course, it was not without horseradish walrus … And in July of this year, they even managed to get a member of a polar bear shot by fishermen.
The largest exhibit of the unusual museum is a member of a blue whale 170 cm long and 70 kg in weight; and in full combat readiness this organ would be five meters high and weigh 450 kg! The smallest is a 2mm hamster penis bone that can only be seen through a magnifying glass.
The human genitals were much more difficult to obtain than any animal limbs. At one time, 15 members of the Icelandic national handball team captured their 15 members on a collective cast for the museum - but this is not the case. Four people agreed to donate their property to the museum after their death - but they have to wait a long time. And finally, in January 2011, a 95-year-old man from a neighboring village bequeathed his member to a museum: according to him, this organ is worthy of fame due to the number of victories won over women.
Sigurd Yartarson assures: animal member collection serves scientific and educational purposes, not pornographic. However, it is not only visited by scientists: due to the natural interest in the genitals, the collection has already been examined by 642,866 visitors.
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