London`s new Vagina Museum: education, not titillation
(Artdaily.org)

Reykjavik has its penis museum and from this weekend London will have a vagina museum -- a place to tackle taboos and learn a little bit more about women`s bodies. In the heart of Camden, a tourist centre and hub of alternative culture in the north of the British capital, the sign for the `Vagina Museum` on an old barn door attracts a few curious glances. Nestled between shops selling vintage clothes and souvenirs, it is the first permanent museum in the world dedicated to this part of the female anatomy. `I found out there was a penis museum and no vagina equivalent, so I made it,` said founder Florence Schechter, a science communicator. Far from being a cabinet of curiosities, the little museum intends to be instructive, with its first goal to expose myths around the vagina. Some of the claims displayed and then debunked are that `if you use a tampon you are no longer a virgin`, `periods are dirty`