{"id":209765,"date":"2010-02-09T13:56:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"285 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-02-09T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:56:06","slug":"icelandic-phallological-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/209765","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic Phallological Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/europe\/iceland\/h%C3%BAsav%C3%ADk\">H\u00fasav\u00edk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/europe\/iceland\">Iceland<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/museums-and-collections\/medical-museums\">Medical Museums<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavik bills itself as \u201cprobably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Included in the museum are 204 &#8220;penises and penile parts&#8221; belonging to 45 different species, including 54 specimens from 16 different kinds of whale, and one lifted off a &#8220;rogue polar bear.&#8221; The museum notes that it &#8220;has also been fortunate enough to receive legally-certified gift tokens for four specimens belonging to Homo Sapiens.&#8221; The museum aims not merely to titillate, but to advance the &#8220;ancient science&#8221; of phallology, which examines how male genitalia have influenced history, art, psychology, and literature.<\/p>\n<p>Join us on Obscura Day &#8211; March 20th, 2010 &#8211; for a special tour of the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavik, which bills itself as the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/phallus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\u00fasav\u00edk, Iceland | Medical Museums The Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavik bills itself as \u201cprobably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country.\u201d Included in the museum are 204 &#8220;penises and penile parts&#8221; belonging to 45 different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}