Reykjavik’s National Phallus Museum has just added a prestigious new artifact to its vast collection: a plaster cast of the erect penis of legendary American guitarist Jimi Hendrix.
The member of the star now occupies a prominent place among the some 400 genitals already on display in the establishment: penises of cetaceans enclosed in Plexiglas tubes, phallus of a raccoon immersed in formaldehyde, bronze sculptures of sexes of the Icelandic handball team that won silver at the Beijing Olympics in 2008…
The curious can observe the new jewel, displayed in a glass cube, from all angles and photograph it with their phone.
At the origin of this work: the artist Cynthia Albritton, nicknamed “Cynthia the plaster maker”, who made the casts of nearly 50 phalluses of rock personalities.
A certificate of authenticity describes the object as an almost perfect copy of the original version made in 1968, reproduced in eight copies, two years before the death of Jimi Hendrix. The musician, whose repertoire includes titles like FoxyLady and Hey Joe, died of an overdose in 1970, aged 27.
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“It is definitely one of our most valuable coins in terms of monetary value”told AFP Thórdur Ólafur Thórdarson, assistant curator of the phallological museum which nevertheless contains the priceless organs of certain rare species of whales.
“We are extremely lucky to have him”
Thórdur Ólafur Thórdarsonchief phallologist
“Cynthia the plaster maker” agreed to donate this piece before her death in April, persuaded by a couple from her neighborhood who had visited the museum in downtown Reykjavik.
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“They thought it would be a great opportunity for her to leave a permanent legacy.”Explain Thórdur Ólafur ThórdarsonThordarson. Donations from visitors are the source of many items in the museum’s collection.
The cast was unveiled in an intimate private ceremony in early June. “It’s funny”smiles British tourist Steven Warren. “After all why not ? He’s a famous character, I’m even surprised they only have him.” Frenchman Pascal Podwojewski says he does not believe “that History will remember the size of his penis, it will remember his music more.”