Icelandic Phallological Museum

The Icelandic Phalological Museum is a small private museum in Reykjavík dedicated to the male sexual organ. Before 2012, the museum was based in Húsavík, a town in the north near Akureyri.

Founded in 1974 by Sigurdur Hjartarson, a retired history professor, the museum collects male genitalia, dried or preserved in formaldehyde.

The collection consists of 276 penises, belonging to 92 different animal species, in this case the mammals of Iceland, some of which are now extinct. Since 2011, a human penis has been part of the collection, donated by an Icelandic citizen upon his death.

The Icelandic Phallological Museum is probably the only museum in the world that collects a collection of phalological specimens belonging to all the various species of mammals found in a single country.

Phalology is an ancient science which, until recent years, has received very limited attention in Iceland, except as a marginal field of study of other academic disciplines, such as history, art, psychology, literature and other artistic fields such as music and ballet.

Today, thanks to the Icelandic Phallological Museum, it is finally possible for individuals to devote themselves to the serious study of the field of phalology in an organized and scientific way.

The Icelandic Phallological Museum contains a collection of two hundred and nine penises and parts of penis, belonging to almost all land and marine mammals found in Iceland.

Visitors to the museum will encounter fifty-five samples belonging to sixteen different species of cetaceans, a sample extracted from a polar bear, thirty-six pieces from seven different species of seals and walruses, and one hundred and fifteen samples from twenty different types of land mammals: all inclusive, a sum of two hundred and nine individual pieces belonging to forty-six different species of mammals.

It should be noted that the museum was also fortunate to receive legally certified promises from four samples of Homo Sapiens members. In addition, twenty-three folkloristic cambpions and forty foreigners are on display. In total, the collection contains 272 specimens of 92 different species of animals.

In addition to the biological section of the museum, visitors can admire the collection of some three hundred artistic oddities and other practical utensils related to the museum's favorite theme.

Map: Icelandic Phallological Museum