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Icelandic Museum Offers Long and Short of Male Organ

Jars filled with various animal phalli are on display at the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavik May 8, 2008. (Reuters/Bob Strong)

A large wooden phallic sculpture stands outside the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavik May 8, 2008. (Reuters/Bob Strong)

Sigurdur Hjartarson, owner and founder of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, poses next to a stuffed elephant penis at the museum in Husavik May 8, 2008. (Reuters/Bob Strong)

A dried blue whale penis (L) is mounted and displayed at the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavik May 8, 2008. (Reuters/Bob Strong)

Husavik, Iceland - Sigurdur Hjartarson is missing a human penis. But he's not worried: four men have promised to donate theirs to him when they die.

Hjartarson is founder and owner of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which offers visitors from around the world a close-up look at the long and the short of the male reproductive organ.

His collection, which began in 1974 with a single bull's penis that looked something like a riding crop, now boasts 261 preserved members from 90 species.

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