I would like to nominate, wait for it, wait for it… The Vagina Museum in London. I kid you not.
Fuck me, you think you’ve heard it all – admin
The Vagina Museum, based in Camden Market, is marking the occasion with its first exhibition: ‘Muff Busters: Vagina Myths and How To Fight Them’.
The free exhibition opens to the public this Saturday 16 November and will be open seven days a week. It centres around the concepts of “cleanliness, contraception, anatomy, periods and sexuality,” according to its curator Sarah Creed. Exhibits include larger-than-life display models of sanitary products – a tampon and Mooncup – covered in glittery “blood” to help tackle the taboos around this imagery.
“For now I’ve focussed on top level content,” Creed says. “But I could have filled a space 800 times bigger than this.”
Visitors are handed an anatomy quiz to label parts of the vagina – and, by the looks of previous papers, it looks like many fall short in being able to do so. The exhibition also features a gift shop which sells everything from the feminist literature of Maya Angelou and Laura Bates to more kitsch items, like a knitted clitoris and a lightbox bearing the phrase “Love the muff”. Going forward, Creed is looking to engage with visitors to the museum in order to gauge the demand ahead of further exhibitions. Creed acknowledges the limits of her own perspective, as someone immersed in the world of vaginas.
As part of the museum’s feedback process, the exhibition will feature a “vagina postbox” where visitors can ask questions and share what they might like to see from the museum.
I’d like to see a ‘permanently closed’ sign on the front door.
Nominated by Mystic Maven


