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  Icelandic Phallological Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions icelandic phallological museum and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal icelandic phallological museum and collective identities, between memory icelandic phallological museum and history.
Icelandic Phallological Museum - The Icelandic Phallological Museum in Húsavík, Iceland (formerly in Reykjavík) is a museum devoted to phallology.
It is homologous to the museum in the attached epididymis.
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 Icelandic Phallological Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The museum attempts to collect penis specimens from every mammal extant in Iceland, including several species that are endangered or currently extinct in Icelandic waters.
Sigurður Hjartarson, a former teacher, is the founder and director of the museum.
Although the museum does not yet have a homo sapiens specimen, in the interest of advancing phallological knowledge, a patron has donated, presumably posthumously, an affidavit for his own penis.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Icelandic_Phallological_Museum   (183 words)

  
 Icelandic Literature: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
With Iceland's loss of political independence (1261–64) came a decline in literature, although the linguistic tradition continued and the old writings were still venerated.
With the urbanization of Iceland's population came the rise of a working class and new patterns of life and thought.
...Icelanders today read the Eddas and sagas of Old Norse literature more easily than the English and the Americans read...One reason for the relative stability and purity of Icelandic is that its speakers lived for centuries in comparative...
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/icelandic_literature.jsp   (1974 words)

  
 Life in Iceland
The Icelandic Phallological Museum is probably 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.
The Icelandic Phallological Museum contains a collection of over eighty penises and penile parts belonging to almost all the land and sea mammals that can be found in Iceland.
It should also be noted that the museum has also been fortunate enough to receive a legally-certified gift token for a future specimen belonging to Homo Sapiens [and a second token, from a German, has been received, by which I mean that the nationality of the first owner was not disclosed].
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 lastminute.com - Icelandic Phallological Museum - Icelandic Phallological Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
At the Iceland Institute of Phallology, all the mysteries of male genitalia are revealed to the scientific community and the public at large.
The museum is also expecting the donation of a set of male human genitals at some point in the future to complete the catalogue...
The museum, as well as showcasing the rich diversity of nature's endowments, also has a gallery of phallological art and a section of "practical utensils" relating to the theme of the museum, whatever that means.
travelguides.lastminute.com /sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=33961   (301 words)

  
 Fire and Iceland / Raucous nightlife and volcanic vistas keep things hot on this glacial island
Iceland, one of the world's youngest countries and one of the most volcanically active, sits squarely atop a split in the Earth's crust, the Mid- Atlantic Ridge, where two tectonic plates are parting company; half the country is moving closer to Europe while the other half inches toward Greenland.
Icelandic buses, particularly during July and August, are accommodating to sightseers and hikers.
Iceland takes its fairy tales seriously; within the Ministry of Transportation is a man responsible for determining if the course of a new road or bridge invades the privacy of the "hidden people," while someone else investigates possible relationships between elves and car accidents.
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 icelandic museum phallological themes with information about every museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
the icelandic phallological museum is devoted to the singles chat boards, chatting in chatrooms and posting pics from her latest encounters.
A special pecularity is the Icelandic Phallological Museum which houses 99 specimens from all but a few of the country's 40 mammal species, plus eight from other countries in the "foreign section...
The Icelandic Phallological Museum - Probably 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...
www.nationalmuseumindia.org /b/icelandicmuseumphallological   (1629 words)

  
 Ananova - Penis museum fills its last space
The world's only penis museum is hoping to fill its empty human section now that an 85 year-old man has volunteered to leave his sexual organs as a legacy.
According to museum director Sigurdur Hjartarson, Mr Arason has aksed for it to be removed while his body is still warm, allowing the museum the opportunity to exhibit it erect.
Among the exhibits hanging on the museum's wall are a tanned bull's penis that was once used as a whip on the country's farms and a smoked horse's penis said to have been a favourite snack for a 1930s gourmet.
www.ananova.com /news/story/sm_45335.html   (250 words)

  
 The Aberdeen Foundation -- email@aberdeenfoundation.org
Museum Director Sigurður Hjartarson has set out to collect penile specimens from every land and sea mammal Iceland has.
The museum, located on a main shopping street in Reykjavik, is now crowded with specimens, some pickled in formaldehyde, others preserved through tanning and hung like hunting trophies from the walls.
He lives in the north of Iceland, and was something of a pioneer in the tourism industry.
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 Iceland Weekend Visit - The Sugarcubes Concert | Ask MetaFilter
Icelanders are great and really know how to party and you will see some of the most stunningly beautiful women in the world there.
The Phallological Museum is great, but it's disappointingly small (the museum that is - the actual contents of the museum come in varying sizes of course).
Yep, the museum has definitely moved to the north of the country and is far to far to travel from Reykjavik if only going for a weekend and even if you are going for longer because the roads may have closed already.
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 Husavik Guide
Iceland, of course, is a seafood lover's dream -- the seafood is among the freshest in the world, and fishing is Iceland’s leading business.
Icelanders are probably so tough because beginning at 6 months, they are placed outside (wrapped in blankets) in the winter for an hour of fresh air.
Hallgrimskirkja is Lutheran (the religion of 95% of the Icelandic population).
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 Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent voice - English - Facts and phalluses
As you enter the small museum, a warm light greets you from a string of strange, fuzzy lamps.
Indeed, the smoked item, an Icelandic horse's penis, was donated in memory of an islander who used to eat these as a treat.
But although the Phallological Museum is stuffed with such oddities, it's the sheer biological diversity of mammalian members that fascinates Mr.
www.radionetherlands.nl /features/science/museum021230.html   (538 words)

  
 TIME Pacific | Northern Exposure | October 9, 2000
The Icelandic Phallological Museum contains 99 specimens from all but a few of the country's 40 mammal species, plus eight from other countries.
Sigurdur Hjartarson, the founder, curator and owner of the museum, explains that this whale was only a young fellow, not yet full-grown, and its thin brown spike represents only part of the organ: as an anatomical drawing pinned beside the exhibit shows, twice as much again is hidden inside the whale.
Arason, who organized the first escorted trips to Iceland's interior for tourists, is "very far from being modest," says Hjartarson, and insists that his organ be exhibited in a fitting way.
www.time.com /time/pacific/magazine/20001009/penis.html   (886 words)

  
 Iceland Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
This open air museum has a large number of building from both the settlement period (apx 800) and the early 20th century.
Icelanders are famous for and proud of their horses.
This stunning location visible from the main Iceland highway about halfway along the southern coast is a real natural wonder where one of the icy tongues of the Vatnjokull glacier calves icebergs into a large lagoon with only a small opening to the sea.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Iceland/Things_To_Do-Iceland-R-13.html   (955 words)

  
 Hoppa - Culture in Iceland
Iceland, the United Kingdom, the Nordic Countries, Films, Myths and Folktales Beowulf and Grendel starring Gerry Butler,Stellan Skarsgard, Ingvar Sigurdson, Sarah Polley, Filmed in Iceland.
Iceland, the Polar Regions, the Nordic Countries, Photographers Image bank of photographer Ragnar Th.
Iceland, Norge, Faroe Islands, Grönland, Whales, News, Environment, Fishery Working for the future of coastal cultures and the sustainable use of marine resources.
hoppa.com /eu/nor/is/Culture   (429 words)

  
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is probably 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.
It should be noted that the museum has also been fortunate enough to receive a legally-certified gift token for a future specimen belonging to Homo Sapiens.
In addition to the biological section of the museum, visitors can view the collection of about one hundred artistic oddments and other practical utensils related to the museum´s chosen theme.
www.ismennt.is /not/phallus/ens.htm   (180 words)

  
 Strange Travels: The Penis Museum of Iceland - Associated Content
It’s the Icelandic Phallological Museum, a serious yet humorous tourist attraction with a penis on record for nearly every species of mammal living on or around the island.
Of course, not all of the Iceland Phallological Museum’s collection is marked by unmodified members.
Underwood has been so gracious as to provide the penis museum with a preview mold of his someday-to-be-severed member, eerily named “Elmo.” Until one of these four men dies, the only true Homo Sapiens specimen the Icelandic Phallological Museum can claim is the foreskin of an unidentified middle-aged man, received in 2002.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/50986/strange_travels_the_penis_museum_of.html?cs=79993&   (438 words)

  
 Icelandic Phallological Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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The museum currently has 231 specimens (as of 24/06/2005) displayed like hunting trophies, embalmed in formaldehyde, or dried in display...
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 Salon.com Sex | Show me yours
If you visit him in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland, and ask him to explain the differences between the penile parts of, say, a polar bear and a bearded seal, he will almost certainly respond helpfully, and in great detail.
Overseeing this vast collection of penises was an unassuming white guy, probably in his 50s, who told me he believed it to be the only collection of its kind in the world.
I then purchased a few postcards of whale penises from his museum shop, I sent one to a friend with a guyish remark and that was it.
www.salon.com /sex/feature/2001/03/27/iceland/index.html   (874 words)

  
 TIME Europe | Iceland: Icelandic Exhibitionist | 9/18/2000
The other apparent bequest is from 85-year-old Páll Arason, owner of a farm on the north coast of Iceland, whose letter testifies that he formally bestows "my reproductive organs 'penis et scrotum'" to the museum.
Like other museums, the Icelandic Phallological has a website (www.mh.is/vefir/phallus).
A birchwood penis minibar that holds glasses, corkscrew and bottle, however, is not for sale — Hjartarson is too fond of it himself — and neither are the bow ties in soft whale penis leather.
www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/2000/0918/penismuseum.html   (1008 words)

  
 Greenland is Ice and Iceland is Green
Well, at 6 foot, the cock of a sperm whale is taller than me and greets visitors to the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Reykjavik, also premises of the Icelandic Phallological Institute, i.e., Penis Museum - perhaps the only of its kind in the world.
Only one creature is missing here - that of the homo sapien, but the museum is proud to announce that a kind Icelander, currently in its 70’s, has kindly pledged to donate his to the museum upon his decease.
Even then, this tiny city has an university and a symphony orchestra - yet another indication of the Icelandic level of human development, one of the highest in the world.
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 Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto Website
These two scholarships are each offered to a student who is in or about to enter post secondary education or training, and we are interested in attracting candidates who, in addition to high academic standing, leadership qualities and community involvement, have an interest in their heritage.
The Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto has established a grant of $500 - to be awarded to a child of Icelandic descent between the ages of 8 and 12 for the purpose of attending the Icelandic Language and Cultural Camp near Gimli, Manitoba July 25th to July 29th, 2005.
Iceland's National Dress - The Icelandic National Costume Board presents a lot of information on this topic, including the well-known Upphlutur.
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 The Weirdest Museum ever in Iceland!!! - WTAworld.com
But one Icelander has chosen to ignore his country's impressive geology and focus on the more obscure phallology, the study of the penis -- the Icelandic mammal penis in this case.
Sigurdur Hjartarson, a high school history teacher, erected the museum in 1997, after collecting dozens of penises from the various mammals of his homeland.
But because the museum's mandate is to display Icelandic mammals, only the Icelander's penis will find a place in the main exhibit.
www.wtaworld.com /showthread.php?t=14257   (863 words)

  
 Icelandic Phallological Museum, Reykjavik in Iceland on gallery·future-i·com
Icelandic Phallological Museum, Reykjavik in Iceland on gallery·future-i·com
Joining is free, very simple, only needs a couple of details, and takes a minute to fill in.
Pictures from Ben and Ailie's trip to Iceland in March 2004.
gallery.future-i.com /Iceland/pic:phallo-museum   (104 words)

  
 Hoppa - Museums in Iceland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Reykjavik, Museums, Role Play The Saga Museum intimately recreates key moments in Icelandic history, moments that determined the fate of our people and which give a compelling view into how Icelanders have lived and thought for more than a millenium.
Reykjavik, Ancient Manuscripts, Museums, Literature Icelandic manuscript preservation and research.
Reykjavik, Libraries, Museums, Literature, History The Library Room of the Culture House is dedicated to Icelandic literary culture.
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 Husavík travel guide - Wikitravel
Husavík, Iceland is home to the Icelandic Phallological Museum.
E-mail: mailto:phallus@phallus.is [1] This my be the only museum in the world that has phallic specimens for all the mammals in a country.
Its a good opportunity to come across the rugged Icelandic breed and also get to do some sightseeing on horseback at the same time.
wikitravel.org /en/Husav%C3%ADk   (266 words)

  
 Student Travel Information & Discounts - Events: Science & Knowledge Events in Iceland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
All the fishermen of Iceland - and there are lots of them - take this June Sunday off as a holiday.
Fish are to Iceland what chips are to Britain and the Reykjavik Maritime Museum takes an in-depth look at the country's fishing industry and its seafaring heritage.
The Medical Museum at Nesstofa is part of the National Museum of Iceland, but is operated as a separate entity.
www.istc.org /sisp/?fx=theme&loc_id=131056&cat_id=2233   (244 words)

  
 The Daily Screw from The Virtual Corkscrew Museum
Our first stop was the museum website where we found no mention of corkscrews in the collection.
We learned from ananova.com that a British tycoon was considering a bid for the museum.
He says it will be a 'shame to sell the museum abroad' and see it leave Iceland, as it's the most talked-about museum in the country and the only one of its kind in the world." Still no mention of corkscrews.
www.bullworks.net /daily/03nov02.htm   (360 words)

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