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Iceland's Penis Museum Gets First Human Member

Apr 12, 2011 – 2:54 PM
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Steven Hoffer

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Iceland's penis museum finally has its featured member.

Pall Arason, who passed away last year at the age of 95, has officially donated his "pickled penis" to the Phallological Museum, giving the bizarre exhibit its very first human specimen.

Sigurdur Hjartarson, Arason's friend and the museum's curator, says that Arason's posthumous gift helps to complete the growing collection of whale, bear, seal and other mammalian private parts.

Icelandic Phallological Museum
Elín Eydís Friðriksdóttir
Iceland's Phallological Museum finally has its featured member, the "pickled penis" belonging to a late friend of the exhibit's curator.
Located in the fishing town of Husavik, the museum boasts a collection of over 209 penises and penile parts "belonging to almost all the land and sea mammals that can be found in Iceland," according to the museum website.

According to the medical director of nearby Akureyri Hospital, a doctor at the local morgue supervised the operation, which was carried out in January.

The museum has been open since 1997 without a human specimen.


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