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The 冰島陰莖博物館（冰島語：Hið Íslenzka Reðasafn）位於冰島的首都雷克雅維克市，是世界上收藏最多陰莖的博物館，而且是世界上唯一專門收藏陰莖的博物館。

The Icelandic Phallological Museum's sign

博物館是1997年由歷史學家哈特森（Sigurður Hjartarson，1941年生）創辦的。哈特森自從1974年得到一件公牛陰莖以後開始收集各種動物的陰莖。退休以後哈特森在雷克雅維克附近的漁村 Húsavík 建立博物館。2012年博物館搬到雷克雅維克市内。館長現在是哈特森的兒子 Hjörtur Gísli Sigurðsson。

博物館總共收藏280件陰莖，來自93種動物（大部分是住在冰島上和冰島週圍海裏的哺乳動物），包括鯨魚的陰莖55件、海豹等鰭足類動物的陰莖36件、陸生動物的陰莖118件。據說還藏有神話中洞穴巨人和精靈的陰莖。2011年7月收藏第一件人的陰莖，是一位95歲冰島人艾拉森（Pall Arason）的陰莖，但保存情況不良，所以哈特森希望將來會有人贈給“一個更年輕更大更好的陰莖”。2014，一名美國男子法爾康（Jonah Falcon）願意死後捐出其勃起時達34厘米的陰莖予博物館。另外館內還收藏有在2008年夏季奧林匹克運動會手球比賽中獲得銀牌的冰島男子手球隊的一組陰莖銅像。

最大的陰莖是抹香鯨的，重70公斤、長170釐米，但這不過是陰莖的前部分，全部可能達到5米長、重350至450公斤。

Icelandic Phallological Museum, in Reykjavík, Iceland, houses the world's largest display of penises and penile parts. The collection of 280 specimens from 93 species includes samples from whales (pictured), seals and land mammals. Exhibits are preserved in formaldehyde and displayed in jars or are dried and hung or mounted on the museum's walls and in display cases. The largest item on display once belonged to a blue whale; the smallest, from a hamster, can only be seen with a magnifying glass. The museum claims that it has specimens from elves and trolls that cannot be seen at all since, according to Icelandic folklore, these creatures are invisible. In July 2011, the museum obtained its first human specimen, but the preservation process did not go according to plan and the museum hopes to acquire a "younger and a bigger and better" example. Founded in 1997 by a retired teacher, it attracts thousands of visitors a year—the majority of them women—and has received international media attention. According to its mission statement, the museum aims to enable "individuals to undertake serious study into the field of phallology in an organized, scientific fashion".