Icelandic Phallological Museum

The Icelandic Phallological Museum (Icelandic: Hið Íslenzka Reðasafn) in Reykjavík, Iceland houses the world's largest collection of penises and penile parts. By July 2011, it had 276 penises taken from 46 species, including Homo sapiens. Its collection includes 55 penises taken from whales, 36 from seals and 118 from land mammals, including a wide variety of domestic, wild, terrestrial, and marine animals and a stray polar bear shot by fishermen who found it drifting on pack ice off the Westfjords. The museum acquired its first human penis in July 2011. The museum was founded by Sigurður Hjartarson, a historian who worked as a teacher and principal for 37 years, latterly at Reykjavík's Hamrahlíd College, where he taught history and...