The Pickled Penis Capital of the World-Probably More Penis Information Than People Need

I thought I had heard it all. That is until I read about a . . . penis museum in Iceland. Yes, you read right, penis museum, but it’s formally called The Phallological Museum. It proudly sits in the small Icelandic fishing town of Husavik. I must have been living under a rock not to have been on top of this important fact of life but it has been around for over 15 years. It is an important part of the Husavik region's tourist industry, bringing in thousands of visitors every summer. Well, I have never received a tourist brochure from them which is fine by me but who would have “thunk” it—a phallus museum!

You’re probably asking yourself what’s this museum all about. Well, it has an extensive collection of phalluses from whales, seals, bears and other mammals. They have hundreds of penises and penile-related “bits”. They seemed to have pretty much everything one could ask for in pickled penises but not so, at least not up until recently. They were missing one that Sigurdur Hjartarson, who runs the Phallological Museum, said he had been waiting to get for over 15 years. What had Sigurdur been waiting for all this time? A pickled human penis that’s what.

Recently, a deceased 95-year-old Icelander, Pall Arason donated just that, his pickled penis. Museum management was ecstatic that they scored with the holy grail of penises. They say it is sure to be the main attraction that up until now was a toss up between a 67-inch sperm whale penis preserved in formaldehyde, lampshades made from bull testicles, and an unusually big penis bone from a Canadian walrus. Humans always trumped animals and apparently will do so here as well.

Hjartarson told the Associated Press that, “Several people had pledged their penises over the years including an American, a Briton, and a German but Arason's was the first to be successfully donated.” Hjartarson went on to say, “I have just been waiting for this guy for 15 years". Whew!

Well, if you want to see, or happen to know someone who may want to see pickled penises, lots of them, you know where one can go; the quaint little fishing village in Iceland called Husavik, the pickled penis capital of the world.