Penises on show in Iceland museum

A museum showing animal genitalia of all shapes and sizes – from whales penises to field mice scrotums – has opened in Iceland.

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From gigantic whale penises to speck-sized field mouse testicles and lampshades made from bull scrotums, Iceland’s small Phallological Museum has it all – and recently put its first human member on display.

“This is the biggest one,” founder and curator Sigurdur Hjartarson told AFP, patting an enormous plastic canister. Inside was a liquid-immersed greyish-white mass as wide as a small tree trunk and as tall as a man.

Weighing 70kg and measuring around 170 centimetres, the Sperm Whale specimen “is just the front tip”, he explained.

“The full penis could in fact be five metres and weigh something like 350 to 450 kilos – but of course, the animal it came from weighed around 50 tonnes,” said the 69-year-old retired headmaster, chuckling beneath his woolly, grey beard.

A total 276 specimens from all of Iceland’s 46 mammals, along with a few foreign contributions, are on show at what may be the world’s only penis museum.

The cramped room is filled with test tubes and glass containers in all shapes and sizes, holding formaldehyde-immersed offerings from whales, dolphins, walruses, redfish, goats, polar bears and rats, just to mention a few.

The walls are decorated with massive dried penises, while several dried bull and reindeer organs have been transformed into whips and walking sticks.

Fifteen silver-coloured casts of different-sized human penises also stand in a glass case below a picture of Iceland’s 2008 silver medal-winning handball team.

“Let’s just say each has its original model,” Hjartarson laughed heartily.

“The only thing I can say is that the order on the picture is not the same as the casts, but I’m sure their wives would recognise them.”

The Icelander’s collection started with a story in 1974. He recalled to some friends how as a child he was given a whip made of a bull’s penis to take the cows out to pasture. One of the friends responded by sending him a new one.

Soon acquaintances working at nearby whaling stations heard the tale and “they started bringing me whale penises, too”.

After that, the collection took on a life of its own.

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