First Ever PENIS museum built in Reykjavik

A former teacher has amassed the world's largest collection of PENISES, with nearly 300 specimens on display at the first ever museum dedicated to the male member.

And founder Sigurdur Hjartarson's said his motivation was simple: "Somebody had to do it." 

Visitors to the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Reykjavik will find 282 penises of all shapes and sizes, from 93 different species of animal across the globe.

The bizarre collection spans from a huge sperm whale's 1.7-metre phallus - the largest exhibited - to the tiny penis bone of a hamster. 

 

The genitals of a polar bear, dolphins, a walrus, fish, an elephant and a man are also among those on display, some preserved in formaldehyde-filled glass containers and others dried and erected on the wall.

The museum even has a section on penises in Icelandic folklore, and claims to exhibit the phalluses of mythological creatures including an elf, a merman and the "the Nasty Ghost of Snaefiall".

 

The museum opened in 1997 with 62 specimens after Hjartarson decided to put his eccentric hobby to use.

He began collecting penises as a child in 1974 after being given a bull's penis to use as a whip on animals.

He said: "Some of my teachers used to work in summer in a nearby whaling station and after the first specimen they started bringing me whale penises, supposedly to tease me.

"Then the idea came up gradually that it might be interesting collecting specimens from more mammalian species."

By 1980 Hjartarson, a historian who worked as a teacher for 37 years, had amassed penises from four whales and nine land mammals.

Ten years later that collection had grown to 34, and it has expanded steadily in the following four decades.