11 Things to Know About What It's Like to Run a Penis Museum
We couldn’t believe it either, but yep, there’s a museum for that! Hjörtur Gísli Sigurðsson, curator of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, exposes it all.
1. My father, Sigurður Hjartarson, started to collect penises in 1974.
The first specimen was a pizzle—a dried bull’s penis. His friends gave it to him as a joke, but it sparked the idea to collect them. He kept the collection at home and it slowly grew. He opened it to the public in 1997.
2. He started collecting when I was 10 years old ...
... so I grew up with it and accepted it as normal, which it is. I had great adventures going to remote places to harvest organs with my father.
3. Most of our specimens are from Icelandic mammals.
People all over let us know if something happens, like if a whale beaches. Hunters also bring specimens, although we never ask for an animal to be killed just to harvest the organ.
4. We have one human specimen.
It was from a 95-year-old man. He signed a letter of donation in 1996, and when he died in 2011 a doctor removed his penis.
5. We also have 23 specimens from mystical creatures of Icelandic folklore ...
... such as elves, trolls, and mermen, found by people hiking the countryside. Some, we suspect, are man-made. Some are family heirlooms.
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