Showing posts with label Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Museum. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Reðasafnið or, The Penis Museum

Warning.  If not obvious enough from the title, there are penises ahead.

It seems like a lot of you have heard about the penis museum in Husavik lately.  Conan is apparently talking about it?  All the fuss lately is that they just received their first human specimen, one Páll Arason.  They got this the day after I went.  Timing failure.  Still though, what a place.  What an interesting fellow who runs it.

Apparently he got started when he was 14 after getting this walking stick or cane type business made out of a bulls penis.  The French military used to carry these.  From there, it just progressed.  He now has over 180 specimens, featuring everything from a mouse to a whale.  Also some elves, but I seem to not possess second sight, so I couldn´t see it.

So, without further explaination, here are the penises.  Peni?

Mom and a Blue Whale 

Jars, full of them, everywhere 
I think this was a Reindeer 
Some were very tiny

Some were big.  This is a minke whale.

Changeling


Best Phone Ever

Seals

I find myself at a bit of a loss as to what to say about this place.  It´s full of dicks.  It´s a testament to the human desire to collect really weird stuff.  It´s the penis museum.  What else can be said.