Museum
The Icelandic Phallological Museum
Cabinet of over three hundred animal specimens, including a rare and unlikely human addition.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Reykjavik traces the decades-long quest of its founder, a retired schoolteacher named Sigurdur Hjartarson, who filled his cabinets with specimens from bulls, whales, reindeer and even a polar bear but lacked the one exhibit visitors always asked about: a human specimen. Four men eventually pledged theirs, including a ninety-five-year-old from Akureyri who wanted, in his own words, eternal fame. The American pledge, meanwhile, only ever sent a plaster cast dressed up as Santa Claus and Abraham Lincoln.
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