The museum of whales you will never see : and other excursions into the Iceland's most unusual museums /
Iceland is home to only 330,000 people but more than 265 museums and public collections, ranging from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to exist in Iceland, to the vaporously metaphysical, like the Museum of Icelandic So...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Books,
[2020].
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| Summary: | Iceland is home to only 330,000 people but more than 265 museums and public collections, ranging from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects the penises of every mammal known to exist in Iceland, to the vaporously metaphysical, like the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft, which poses a particularly Icelandic problem. How to display what can't be seen? A. Kendra Greene is our wise and whimsical guide through this cabinet of curiosities, showing us, in dreamlike anecdotes and more than thirty charming illustrations, how a seemingly random assortment of objects, a stuffed whooper swan, a rubber boot, a shard of obsidian, a chastity belt for rams, can map a people's past and future or their fears and obsessions. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 252 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780143135463 0143135465 |