The Icelandic Phallological Museum i.e. the World’s first and only Penis Museum has been going strong since 1997. Not everyone has been happy about this, especially as there was even an excellent documentary made about it
Now the playing field is about to be ‘leveled’ as the Vagina is finally about to have a permanent home of its own. The Vagina Museum is the world’s first bricks-and-mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and gynecological anatomy. 200,000 people have visited the Vagina Museum’s educational exhibitions since it opened to the public in 2019. However, In February 2023 the Museum was made homeless and is currently seeking new premises to bring its exhibitions and events back into the world.
Now they have found a perfect space in a pair gorgeous pair of twin railway arches in East London. They have BIG plans for this space and they’ll have the room to realize these plans. But there’s a catch… they lack the funds. They need to raise £85,000 by the beginning of June in order to pull this off. Hence a new crowd-funder has been started
The Vagina Museum exists because they want to end the stigma and shame about vaginas and vulvas. 65% of women aged 16-25 say they have a problem using the words vagina or vulva. This embarrassment to talk about gynecological anatomy can literally kill: nearly a third of women aged 16-35 say they have avoided going to the doctors altogether with gynecological issues due to embarrassment (Eve Appeal 2016, 2019). Almost half of women (and more than half of men) cannot correctly label a diagram of the vulva (YouGov 2019). The Museum exists to break these taboos, to educate people, and empower people to talk with confidence about anatomy which half of the world shares.
