The Icelandic Phallological Museum

THEN (2000):                                                    NOW (2025):

When I visited Iceland in 2000 the first “Temple of Icelandic Culture” I went to was the Icelandic Phallological Museum. It has moved around a bit since then: from a funky backstreet storefront to a small town and now into a basement of the glitzy new commercial buildings near the waterfront. It is professionally curated, with lots of displays and factual information about penises of all sorts of animals:

There is a very nice (and evidently popular) bistro there, along with a message board in the gift shop that was popular with some of the younger patrons:

By all standards, it is a rousing (arousing?) success. It features specimens from all branches of the animal kingdom, including plaster casts of human notables:

And the pièce de résistance: the original Cynthia Plaster Caster capture of Jimi Hendrix: